Campanulacee— Campanula. 269 
tender species with bright blue or white rather shallow 
corollas. It grows 3 or 4 feet high, with tufted ovate radical 
leaves and 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 growin from 2 to 3 feet high, and remarkable for the 
large size uf 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 morc 
remarkable, double and single rose- | 
coloured varieties, in cultivation. ¢ 
Central Enrope. 
3. C. latiyolia.—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. CO. Trachéliwm.— Another 
native perennial species near the 
last, but differing in its hispid pe- 
tiolate coarsely-toothed Nettle-like is Gi ein paste mind 
leaves, the lower cordate at the (} 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. CO. 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. 
