270 Campanulacee—Campanula. 
6. C. ndbilis.—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 18 inches or 2 feet. Leaves hairy : 
lower petiolate, ovate, toothed; upper 
lanceolate. 
7. C. persicifolia.—A perennial 
species with linear serrulated coria- 
ceous leaves and hemispherical blue 
or white flowers 2 to 24 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. C. 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. 
Fig. 154. Campanula glomerata. 9. C. grandiflora (fig. 155), syn. 
eee Platycodon grandiflorus.—A_peren- 
nial species about a foot high, of straggling habit. Flowers 
deep dark blue, appearing in July. Native of China. 
10. C. Curpdthica (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. 
