332 Herbaceous plants, 



sometimes semi-double or double. Excellent border plant; 

 fine for naturalizing in grassy and half-shady positions. 

 Carpatian bell-flower (C. carpatica), a very graceful plant, 

 with slender branched stems about a foot high and more or 

 less cordate leaves on long stalks ; flowers in loose racemes, 

 cup-shaped, deep blue or, in one variety, white. This is a 

 very fine plant for borders or rockeries, flowering in summer 

 for several months. It forms broad masses of leaves and 

 flowers. There are a few very dwarf varieties of this spe- 

 cies fine for rock-gar- 



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dens, such as turbinata, 

 leaves all radical, ovate, 

 on long stalks ; flowers 

 solitary, erect, on slen- 

 der stalks six inches 

 high, color purple ; pel- 

 viformis, taller, with 



FIG. 146. DWARF CARPATIAN BELL-FLOWER (CAMPA- * 



NULA CARPATICA TURBiNATA PALLIDA). loosely racemose flowers 

 of a bright lilac color, two inches across. The following 

 are chiefly dwarf and trailing plants, inhabitants of alpine 

 meadows or stony banks of mountain streams : C. ccespitosa, 

 stems short, tufted ; leaves ovate, crowded ; flowers ter- 

 minal, blue or white, numerous. On rocky shores of rivu- 

 lets or in moist ground near a stream in a rockery. C. 

 garganica, stems trailing, leaves reniform or heart-shaped, 

 downy ; flowers at the end of the shoots, axillary, blue, or 

 sometimes white. Charming rock plants for growing in a 

 compost of leaf soil, sand and brick rubbish, or old 

 mortar. Protected in winter by a covering of leaves. 

 C. pusilla, very dwarf ; leaves tufted ; flowers on slender 



