THE GENUS CAMPANULA. 



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late Mr. Robert Parker. The reputed parents, he told me, were carpatica 

 x isophylla alba, and the wide, open, somewhat flattened salver-shaped 

 blue corollas may perhaps be traced to the influence of isophylla. 



CENISIA. — Very small, very beautiful, and, like Elatincs, very diffi- 

 cult to manage. Sharp gritty loam in a well-drained fissure in the rockery 



Fig. 32.— Campanula Elatines. (The Garden.) 



seems to suit it ; its great enemy is the slug. Height two inches, with 

 erect bells. (Fig. 31.) 



ELATINES. — A very rare, difficult, and beautiful species growing 

 from four to six inches in height. The flowers, which appear in July and 

 August, are bluish-purple, borne on a branched stem, and the leaves heart- 



