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CAMPANULA nobilis. 
Noble Bell-flower. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEZ. (BELL wonrs, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 689.) 
CAMPANULA, L.— Bot. Reg., fol. 56. 
C. nobilis; caule ramoso (sesguipedali) foliisque pilosis, foliis grossè biser- 
ratis utringue viridibus radicalibus longě petiolatis altě cordatis ovatis 
caulinis sessilibus lanceolatis ramis inferioribus brevioribus, floribus 
versus apices ramorum approximatis racemosis pendulis, calycis ciliati 
laciniis lineari-lanceolatis corollá tripló brevioribus appendicibus ovatis, 
corollá elongato-campanulatá extus glabrá intus villosá, stigmate trifido. 
— Lindley in Journal of Hort. Soc. vol. 1. p. 232. 
This very nice herbaceous plant was sent to the Horti- 
cultural Society by Mr. Fortune from China. The following 
account has been given of it in the Journal of the Horticul- 
tural Society :— 
“ The root-leaves of this fine herbaceous plant are deeply 
heart-shaped, of a bright pale green, and placed on footstalks 
from 6 to 9 inches long, forming a large tuft. From among 
them, and to rather more than twice their height, rises the 
flowering stem, which branches a little at the bottom, and 
bears upon its divisions several fine nodding flowers, which 
seem to be the largest yet seen among the genus Campanula. 
They are something like those of Canarina, nearly 3 inches 
long, and 14 in diameter. The corolla is pale purple on the 
outside, and nearly smooth, but paler within, abundantly 
sprinkled with bright purple dots, and closely covered with 
long delicate horizontal hairs. 
** It is allied to the Canterbury Bell (Campanula Medium), 
and like it has a calyx furnished with reflexed appendages ; 
but its stigma is trifid, on which account it more nearly 
approaches the Sarmatian and Dotted Bellworts (C. sarmatica 
and punctata). Itis, however, perfectly distinct, and a grand 
addition to handsome hardy herbaceous plants. 
