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Camp ami lacecz Campanula. 



6. C. nobilis. A Chinese perennial species remarkable for 

 the large size of its reddish violet or white or cream-coloured 



spotted flowers, which are 3 inches or 

 more in length. It rises to a height 

 of 1 8 inches or 2 feet. Leaves hairy ; 

 lower petiolate, ovate, toothed; upper 

 lanceolate. 



7. 0. persiclfolia. A perennial 

 species with linear serrulated coria- 

 ceous leaves and hemispherical blue 

 or white flowers 2 to 2^ inches in 

 diameter. One of the commonest and 

 handsomest of cultivated species, in- 

 cluding some handsome double-flowered 

 varieties. It grows from 2 to 3 feet 

 high, and continues blooming from 

 June till September. A native of the 

 South of Europe. 



8. (7. rotundifolia. Hare-bell. A 

 common indigenous species, owing its 

 specific name to the fact of its lower 

 leaves being rotundate or ovate in out- 

 line. The stem-leaves are linear and 

 entire. Stem slender, from 1 to 2 feet 

 high, bearing a few-flowered raceme 

 of drooping flowers on slender pedicels. 

 The graceful habit of this plant 

 renders it equally attractive with the 

 larger flowered species. There are 

 white and pink varieties, but the 

 ordinary blue one is perhaps the hand- 

 somest. 



9. (7. grandiflora (fig. 155), syn. 

 Platycbdon grandiflorus. A peren- 

 nial species about a foot high, of straggling habit. Flowers 

 deep dark blue, appearing in July. Native of China. 



10. C.Carpdthica (fig. 156).- A tufted perennial usually 

 about 9 inches high. Leaves cordate, toothed. Flowers hemi- 

 spherical, on long slender pedicels. There are several varieties 

 of this desirable species in cultivation, with blue, blue and 

 white, or entirely white flowers. This is perhaps the best of 

 the dwarf species. 



Fig. 154. Campanula glomerata. 

 (J nat. size.) 



