Tan. 4879. 
CAMPANULA primuLa@FLoRa. 
Primrose-leaved Bell-flower. 
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEE®.—PENTANDRIA MonoGynIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla apiece 5-loba vel 5-fida, seepius campanu- 
lata. Stamina 5, libera ; filamentis basi latis et membranaceis, Stylus in preeflora- 
tione pilis collectoribus (excepta ima basi) tectus. Stigmata 8 vel 5, filiformia. 
Capsula 3—-5-locularis, valvis 83-5 lateraliter dehiscens. Semina ovata, compla- 
nata vel ovoidea.—Herbee sepius perennes, nunc huimiles et humifuse, nunc 2-3- 
pedales, erecte, multiflora, foliis radicalibus sepius forma diversis, floribus termi- — 
nalibus vel awillaribus. Omnes in hemispherio boreali. DC. 
CaMPANvLA (§ Eucodon) primuleflora; caule hispido simplici erecto, foliis pi- 
losis ineequaliter duplicato-crenatis, radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusius- 
culis petiolo marginato, caulinis ovato-oblongis acutis, floribus spicato- 
racemosis axillaribus ternis vel singulis, tubo calycis obconico piloso, lobis _ 
acuminatis basi latis denticulatis corolla campanulata rotata duplo breviori- _ 
CaMPaNvLa primulefolia. Bot. Fi. Lusit. p. 288. Phytogr.v. 1. t. 20. De 
Cand. Prod. v. 7. p. 478. e 
CamPaNuLa peregrina. Hofim. et Link, Fl. Port. v. 2. p. 15. t. 83 (not Linn.). 
The volume of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ published in 1839, 
contains 182 species of Campanula, and fifty-five species are 
added since that period, and are included in Walpers’ ‘ Reper- 
torium’ and ‘ Annales.’ Many of them are probably of doubtful 
specific value. Happily the present one is well marked, and has 
been both well defined and well figured in two continental pub- — 
lications, though mistaken for another species in that of Link 
and Hoffmannsegg: and it is one that deserves to be better — 
known in this country than it is, for it is eminently handsome ~ 
and quite hardy, and may be made a great ornament to our — 
flower-borders. It is a native of Portugal,* growing in moist — 
rocks and shady places of the Algarves and Beira, and near 
Coimbra, above Punhete and about Monchica : probably a rare 
* The native country of this is, by some accident, omitted in De Candolle’s _ 
* Prodromus.’ 
OCTOBER Ist, 1855. 
