l62 ALPINE PLOTTERS. Part II. 



though it is quite at home even when fully exposed. In a bog car- 

 peted with the dwarf dark-green leaves of this plant, the effect is 

 very pleasing, as its white flowers crop up here and there along 

 each rhizome, just raised above the leaves. Those having 

 natural bogs, &c. would find it a very interesting plant to intro- 

 duce to them, while for moist spongy spots near the rock- 

 garden, or by the side of a rill, it is one of the best things that 

 can be used. A native of the North of Europe, and also abun- 

 dant in cold bogs in North America, flowering in summer, and 

 increasing continuously and rapidly by its running stem. 



CAMPANULA iJJST^h..— Alpine Harebell. 



Covered with stiff down, which gives it a slightly grey appear- 

 ance, with longish leaves and erect, not spreading, habit, 

 like the Garganica group, and with flowers of a fine dark blue, 

 scattered in a pyramidal manner along the stems. It is a native 

 of Tratisylvania and the Carpathian Mountains, hardier than 

 the dwarf Italian Campanulas, and therefore valuable for the 

 front margins of the mixed border, as well as for the rockwork.' 

 In cultivation it grows from five to ten inches high, and may 

 be readily increased by division or seeds. 



CAMPANULA BAEBATA.—^^ar^«(!? i%zr^^^//. 



One of the sweet blue Harebells that abound in the rich green 

 meadows of Alpine France, Switzerland, North Italy, and 

 Austria, and readily known by the long beard at the mouth of 

 its pretty pale sky-blue flowers, nearly an inch and a quarter 

 long, nodding gracefully from the stems, which usually bear two 

 to five or more flowers. Its rough, shaggy, lanceolate-oblong 

 leaves distinguish it when not in flower. In. elevated places in 

 its native habitats, it sometimes grows no more than from four to 

 ten inches high, but I have met with it nearly twice as high in the 

 lower parts of the valleys in Piedmont. It is suitable for rock- 

 work, or the front margin of the mixed border, though not a 

 showy plant, is easily increased by seeds and also by division, 

 and flowers in summer. There is a small few-flowered variety, 

 and a white-flowered form, these, like the type, being well 

 worthy of culture, and thriving freely in rather moist well- 

 drained loam. . 



