A very full account of the species is given in our friend 
M. Alphonse De Candolles admirable Monograph of the . 
true Campanulas. He appears, however, to have been only 
acquainted with it from the figure in Ventenat, and from a 
dried specimen in the Herbarium of the same Botanist. 
Our specimens were communicated in August last by 
A. B. Lambert, Esq.; and we are obliged to Mr. Don for 
the following remarks upon the species, as well as for the 
character given above. 
* There cannot be a doubt as to the identity of this, Fischer's 
Michauxia decandra, and the levigata of Ventenat Jard. de Cels. 
t. 8l. Asto the number of stamens, they are found to vary both in 
levigata and campanuloides. The chief distinctions of levigata are 
the undivided radical leaves, the smooth stem, and the greater short- 
ness of the calycine laciniz. 
“ Dr. Graham has described it in a recent Number of the Edin- 
mir New Philosophical Journal, and has rightly. determined it to 
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evigata, although it does not appear he had campanuloides: to 
compare. 
“ I ought to observe, that the flowers of levigata are more often 
decandrous than octandrous, although M. Alphonse De Candolle 
makes both uniformly 8-androus, which is incorrect, as is shewn by 
Ventenat's description. The character derived from the petioles is 
not constant, for they are even most dilated in levigata, contrary to 
M. Alphonse De Candolle's observation." 
We presume this is a frame perennial. It is at present 
exceedingly rare; but being in Mr. Lambert's liberal hands, 
it will soon become more common, if it be practicable to 
increase it. 
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