Tas. 6504. 
CAMPANULA FRaGILIs. 
Native of South Italy. 
Nat. Ord. CamMPANULACER.—Tribe CAMPANULEX. 
Genus Campanuta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.) 
Campanvta (Eucodon) fragilis ; glabra pilosa v. pubescens, caulibus gracilibus 
diffusis, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-ovatis v. summis ovatis grosse crenato- 
dentatis, floribus -axillaribus v. apices versus ramorum laxe corymbosis, lobis 
calycinis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis corollam subequantibus integris sinubus 
nudis, corolla late explanata ad medium 5-fida, lobis late ovatis acutis, stylo 
elongato, stigmatibus 3. 
C. fragilis, Cyrill. Plant. fase. i. p. 32, t. 11, f. 2; Tenore Fl. Nap. t. 119; 
A. DC. “Monog. Campan. p. 306; Prodr. vol. vii. p. 476; Lindl. in Bot. 
Reg. t. 1738. 
C, diffusa, Vahl Symb. p. 18. 
C. cochlearifolia, Vahl 7. e. p. 18. 
C crassifolia, Nees Syll. Ratisb. i. p.6; et Amen. Bot. fase. 2, p. 9, t. 4. 
C. Cavolini, var. a, Tenore Syll. p. 94. 
C. Barrelieri, Presi. Symb. Bot. p. 30, t. 19. 
C. saxatilis rotundifolia, &c., Barr. Pi. Obs. p. 10, t. 453. 
C 
. rotundifolia Cajetana, &., Cup. Pamph. vol. i. t. 192; Boce. Ie. rar. p. 54, 
t. 27. 
It is somewhat singular that so long-known and beautiful 
a herbaceous plant as the subject of the present plate should 
be seldom seen in cultivation. The only figure of it given | 
in an English work is that of a smaller flowered more hairy 
variety by Lindley in the “ Botanical Register,” who says 
of it: “In its native stations it is one of the most lovely 
objects imaginable. Often have we heard travellers from 
Italy expatiating upon the beauty of the spots which are 
enamelled with the bright blue flowers of this interesting 
stranger, but it was never our good fortune to see it alive, 
till we met with it in the garden of Mrs. Marryatt at 
Wimbledon.” : 
The specimen here figured is of a large-flowered form, 
which I found in the garden of Miss Wedgwood, at Down, 
JULY Ist, 1880. 
