THE GENUS CAMPANULA. 



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bells and narrow foliage. Height from eight to 15 inches. Flowers much 

 larger than our English Harebell. (Fig. 22.) 



ROTUNDIFOLIA (syn. linif 'olio). —The Common Harebell. Too 

 well known to need description, but a charming little plant, seen in 

 multitudes on grassy banks and often attractive even as late as October ; 



Fig. 26. —Campanula mirabilis. [The Garden.) 



it is lovely in masses in the wild garden. The white form is very pretty 

 but rather difficult to propagate ; we have up to the present been unable 

 to strike it successfully or divide it well. The semi-double form of 

 rotundifolia is in all other respects like the type. 



HOSTII is an Alpine form with deep violet nodding bells on slender 

 stems, a beautiful plant, but extremely variable, as I have observed, in its 



