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tender species with bright blue or white rather shallow 

 corollas. It grows 3 or 4 feet high, with tufted ovate radical 

 leaves ar,d erect spikes of numerous flowers nearly 2 inches in 

 diameter. A native of the mountains of South Europe, 

 blooming towards the end of Summer. 



2. C. Medium (fig. 153). Canterbury Bells. A biennial 

 species growing from 2 to 3 feet high, and remarkable for the 

 large size of its flowers, which are 



constricted at the mouth. This is, 

 or rather was, one of the commonest 

 and most esteemed of garden plants. 

 The typical form has blue flowers, 

 but there are single and double 

 white varieties, and, what is more 

 remarkable, double and single rose- 

 coloured varieties, in cultivation. 

 Central Europe. 



3. C. latifolia. A perennial 3 

 to 4 feet high, and the handsomest 

 of our indigenous species. Leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flowers 

 large, blue or white, solitary in the 

 axils of the upper leaves, forming 

 a terminal raceme. This species is 

 commoner in Central Britain and 

 Ireland than in the extreme north 

 and south. 



4. C. Trachelium. Another 

 native perennial species near the 

 last, but differing in its hispid pe- 

 tiolate coarsely-toothed Nettle- like 



J Fig. 153. Campanula Medium. 



leaves, the lower cordate at the (i nat. size.) 



base, and rather smaller flowers, two or more together in the 

 axils of the leaves. The flowers are commonly blue, and there 

 are both blue and white single and double varieties in gardens. 

 This is common in the South of England, extending as. far 

 northward as Forfarshire in Scotland. It comes into flower 

 in September about the time the last is over. 



5. C. glomerata (fig. 154). This species has about the same 

 distribution as the last, excepting that it is rare in the South 

 of England. The clustered sessile flowers distinguish it from 

 others in cultivation. Perennial, flowering in Autumn. 



