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* CAMPANULA fragilis, 8. hirsuta. 
Hairy-leaved brittle Bell-flower. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEZ Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 185.) 
CAMPANULA.—Supra, vol. 1, fol. 56. 
C. fragilis ; caulibus ascendentibus diffusis ramosis, foliis radicalibus longê petio- 
latis cordatis rotundatis obtusé crenato-lobatis, caulinis minoribus ovatis et 
lanceolatis, floribus paniculatis, lobis calycinis lineari-lanceolatis erectis 
corolle submegualibus, stylo exserto, capsulà ovoideá. Alp. De Cand. 
Monogr. des Camp. 306. 
C. fragilis. Cyrill. plant. fasc. 1. p. 32. t. 11. f. 2. 
C. diffusa. Vahl. Symb. p. 11. 
C. cochlearifolia. Vahl. Symb. p. 18. 
C. crassifolia. Nees v. Esenb. Syll. Ratisb. 1. 6. aman. bot. fasc. 2. p. 9. t. 4. 
A native of the southern parts of Italy, in many places 
of which it is by no means uncommon, as in the neigbourhood 
of Naples, the island of Capri, about Cava, on Mount Pollino, 
and probably elsewhere in Calabria, according to Alphonse 
de Candolle, who remarks that it is hardly met with further 
north than 41* of latitude, that it occupies the evergreen 
region of Italy, and that it even struggles through the lower 
woodland region as far almost as the upper limits of the 
beech, that is to say to 3000 feet of elevation above the sea. 
It grows in exceedingly dense tufts, hanging down from the 
face of limestone rocks; and flowering in the summer months. 
In its native stations it is one of the most lovely objects 
imaginable. Often have we heard travellers from ltaly ex- 
patiating upon the beauty of the spots which are enamelled 
* The English name Bell-flower, and the Latin Campanula, equally 
refer to the form of the corolla, 
