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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Campanula continued. 



linear - lanceolate, sessile, nearly entire. Stems branched. 



Branches diverging. Europe. Borders. (Sy. En. B. 873.) 



FIG. 547. FLOWERING BRANCH OF CAMPANULA MEDIUM. 



C. peregrlna (foreign).* fl. disposed in a dense spicate raceme, 

 sessile ; corollas of a dark violet colour at the base, not so deep in 

 the middle, and paler towards the margins, funnel-shaped. July. 

 I. crenated; lower ones obovate ; superior ones ovate, acute. 

 Stem simple, angular, h. 2ft. Mount Lebanon, 1794. Borders. 

 (B. M. 1257.) 



C. persicsefolia (Peach-leaved).* fl. terminal and axillary, pedun- 

 culate, solitary, inclined, racemose ; corollas blue and all the 

 intermediate shades to white, large, broadly campanulate. July. 

 I. glabrous, stiff, crenulated ; radical ones lanceolate-obovate ; 

 cauline ones linear-lanceolate. Stems nearly simple, h. 1ft. to 3ft. 

 Britain. (Sy. En. B. 871.) The forms of C. persiccefolia are very 

 numerous in gardens. The following are well worth growing : 

 alba, pure white, single-flowered ; alba coronata, pure white, 

 semi-double ; alba fl.-pl., flowers very double and Camellia-like, 

 constituting one of the best hardy flowers for cutting ; ccerulea 

 coronata, blue, in form like the white ; ccerulea fl.-pl., flowers 

 semi-double. 



C. phryeia (Phrygian). . . 

 having the nerves more intensely coloured. 



fl., corolla bluish-violet, spreading, 

 ntensely coloured. July. I. ovate- 

 lanceolate, crenated; lower ones obtuse, upper acute. Stem 

 branched. Branches very naked, divaricate, each terminating in 

 a single flower, h. Sin. to 6in. Mount Olympus, 1820. Rockery 

 annual. 



C. planlflora (flat-flowered). A synonym of C. nitida. 



C. Portenschlagiana (Portenschlag's).* /. light blue-purple, 

 erect, or nearly so, bell-shaped, with spreading segments, several 

 at the ends of the shoots, and one or two in the upper axils. 

 June, July. I., radical ones broadly reniform, conspicuously but 

 irregularly toothed, on long slender petioles ; cauline ones passing 

 from reniform to ovate, h. 6in. to 9m. South Europe. Rockery. 

 SYN. C. muralis. (B. R. 1995.) 



C. primulae folia (Primula-leaved), fl. disposed in a spicate 

 raceme; corolla blue or purple, with a whitish downy bottom, 

 campanulately rotate, nearly glabrous. July. I. unequally and 

 doubly crenated ; radical ones lanceolate, bluntish ; cauline ones 

 ovate-oblong, acute. Stem hispid, simple, h. 1ft. to 3ft. Por- 

 tugal. -Borders. (B. M. 4879.) 



C. pulla (russet).* fl. terminal, large for the size of the plant ; 

 corollas violaceous-blue, campanulate. June. I. glabrous, crenu- 

 lately toothed ; lower ones on short petioles, ovate-roundish ; 

 superior ones sessile, ovate, acute. Stems rarely pilose at the 

 base. h. 3in. to 6in. Eastern Europe, 1779. Rockery, in rich 

 sandy peat and leaf soil. (L. B. C. 554.) 



C. pumila (dwarf). A synonym of C. pusilla. 



Campanula continued. 



FIG. 348. UPPER PORTION OF FLOWERING STEM OF 

 CAMPANULA PUNCTATA. 



C. punctata (dotted), fl. whitish, spotted with red on the inner 

 surface; large, pendulous. I. ovate-acute, somewhat crenate. 

 Stem simple, erect, few-flowered, h. IJft. Siberia, Japan, &c. 

 Border perennial. See Fig. 348. 



C. pnsilla (small).* fl. axillary and terminal at the upper part of 

 the slender stems, pendulous, bell-shaped, passing from deep blue 

 to white. July, August. I., radical ones tufted, broadly ovate 

 or roundish, slightly cordate, obtusely serrated, on petioles longer 

 than the laminae; cauline ones linear-lanceolate, distinctly 

 toothed, sessile, h. 4in. to 6in. Southern Europe. SYN. 

 C. pumila. (B. M. 512.) There is a pale-coloured variety named 

 pallida, and a pure white variety named alba, both of which, as 

 well as the species, are most desirable for the embellishment of 

 rockeries, or for planting in sandy soil as a front line for a 

 border. 



FIG. 349. CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS, showing Habit and Flower. 



C. pyramidalis (pyramidal).* Chimney Bell-flower, fl. very 

 numerous, pedicellate, usually three together from the same 

 bract, the whole disposed in a large pyramidal raceme, which 

 is loose at the base ; corollas pale blue or white, with a dark base. 

 July. 1. glandularly toothed ; lower ones petiolate, ovate-oblong, 

 somewhat cordate ; cauline ones sessile, ovate-lanceolate. Stem 

 nearly simple, but furnished with floriferous branchlets. h. 4ft. 

 to 5ft. Europe, 1596. See Figs. 349 and 350. There are several 

 excellent varieties, but the light and dark blue and white are 

 the best. Borders, and for pot culture. 



C. Raineri (Rainer's).* fl. blue, erect ; corolla turbinate. June. 

 I. almost sessile, ovate, tomentose, remotely serrated ; lower ones 

 the smallest, obovate. Stems erect, firm, branched. Branches 

 one-flowered, leafy, h. 2in. to 3in. Switzerland, Italy, &c., 1826. 



