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CAMPANULA pcnfagonia. 

 Five- angled Bell-jlower. 





PENTANDR1A M0N0CYXL1. 



CAMPANULA. (Cor. monopetala, regular!*. Anth. libera.) 



Cal. superus 5-(rar& 4-) fidus. Cor. campanula (v. rotate), 5 fidm, 

 FilamerUa baai dtlatafft. Stigma (5-) 3-2-lobmn. Ciipi. (.3-) :>-2-Io< u- 

 iris, s^pius infera foniminibus latualibus apertens, nunc apice npera 



valvato (v. foraminibus superb d< -hisa ns). 



tlcrbae rard Suffrutices, lactescetttes. Folia altcn/a, nunc opposila. 

 Indoiebcentia varia. FJores dist'uidi. Brown, prod. I. «3(J0. 



1. 



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Capsula lo)/gissima 



dehiscens. 



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C. pentagonia, ramosa, diffusa; foMia inferioribus oblnngis, obtusis, 



*/; 



loiiirionlms. 



U fieri t. serf. aiigL :>. 



Campanula pentagon!*. Lin. m. pi. 1. ( 23[). Mill. diet. ed. 8. n. 11. 

 7Yo/-f. Kcw.ed. ( 2. 1. 352. Jf7//rA «p. />/. 1.914. - 



Prisniatocarpus pentagoiiius. 



Campanula pentasjonia flora amplissimo tliraciea. Tournef. 



. cretica arvensis, flare maximo. lournej. cor. \nst. 3. 

 Speculum Veneris tlore amplissimo thracicum. RaU hist. 742. 



Annua. Caulis sesuncialts ad pedalem, ramosus, dijfusus, rotundato- 

 apgulosufj pubescens. Folia alterna, patentia, sessilia, angusta, uncialia et 

 longiora, setulis nonnidlis ragis albis consita, subtiis pdosa ; inferiora sub- 

 spat hulato-oblonga, superiora lincari ' oblonga vel lanceolata. Flores majusculi, 

 cceruleo-purpurasceiites, caidis et ramorum terminates, solitarii, clausi in a!as 

 5 complicate. Germina his longiora, pedunculos referentia, tricpietra, pilo i- 

 itscula. Cal.Jb/iaceus, stellatus, angustus, acutus, subset uloso-ciliatus at hue, 

 corolla subbrevior, neque re fleet en v. as. Cor. unciam profunda, rotata, plana, 

 scmiijidnquejida, laciniis obovato-eltipticis, retusis, mucronatis, villis pnucis 

 tnucroni circumpositis, ncrvo medio in dorso setulis 2-3 versus apicem iristructo. 

 Stamina corolla subduplo brexiora, externe vruinata : fil. membranacea, last 



ddatata sertntn-mmiivmrtin. ultrt 



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2-3-uncialis, angiitis costaia, triloculuris, loculis pot y spermis 



C apsula 



The Campanulas, with an elongated prismatic cnpsule. 



as in the 



present sp 



tn;irl<< <i out 



as the stock of a new genus. They uere actually formed 



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by L'Hcritier, in his " Se 



its character developed with 



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botanist. But in every subsequent general system or cata- 

 logue of plants, we fmi\ that all the species which composed 



