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JOUENAL OF THE KOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



shaped, downy, and deeply toothed. It requires a perfectly drained 

 position on the rockery or, better still, on a wall. It may also be grown in 

 rather large well-drained pots, a third of the pot being filled with stones 

 covered with poor gritty loam and a little leaf mould. (Fig. 32.) 



This plant must not be confused with C. elatinoides, which has an 

 unbranched stem and much smaller very dark blue flowers. 



Fig. 33. - Campanula excisa. (The Garden.) 



EXCISA, — A rue plant and very distinct on account of the sort of 

 holes cut out of the corolla at the bottom of each lobe. (Fig. 33.) The 

 flowers are lilac-blue and nodding, each slender stem, five or six inches 

 high, producing but one flower. It should have the same treatment as 

 Elatines and ccniaia. 



I 'll. I (if LIS (syn. Barrelieri). — A tender species from South Italy with 

 prostrate flower steins growing out horizontally from a perennial woody 



