Cor. campanulata, fundo claufo valvis flaminiferis. Stigma 3- 
he 
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_ what creeping, and may be parted either Spring or Autumn. 
_ the two varieties with double flowers having ufurped its plac 
_ charatter, we have been induced to regard this magnificent 
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CAMPANULA PERSICIFOLIA (7 ar. Maxima). 
_GREATEST-FLOWERED | PEAcH-LEAVED 
ie Ls ae 
Sep iseeseededeedesct eae 
Cla/s and Baier, 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
2 _* 
Generic Chara@er. * 
fidum. Cuap/. infera, poris lateralibus dehifcens. 
RS : 
S ax S pecific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
Cc AMPANULA perficifolia (var. maxima) foliis radicalibam ‘ 
obovatis, caulinis lanceolato-linearibus fubfer- 
-ratis {effilibus remotis. Linn. Sy. Vegetab. 
hy “ed. 14. Murr. p. 206. Ait. Kew. Ue I, . 22¢ 
“Mr. Dickson, of Goveni. Garden, favoured me laft Spring 
with roots of this plant, received by him from South-Caroli 
_in 1791. ; 
_ Thofe who have been accuftomed to fee the Campanula pied 
filia’ in its fingle fate, now but rarely met with in our gardens, — 
will perccive in pqint of general habit a ftriking fimilarity 
betwixt it and the prefent plant; the only difference in 
appears to confift in fize, and as fize alone forms no fpecific 
plant as a variety of that fpecies. 
Caspr. Baunine enumerates a large variety. of Campanula 
* perficifolia, which he calls var. major ; on+confulting the 
figures to which he refers, we cannot regard his and ours 
the fame, but are inclined to fuppofe that the latter _— 
variety altogether new to the European world. | 
However this may prove, by the introduétion of the prefent 
* plant our flower borders gain a moft defirable ornament ; 
the acquifition is the more valuable, as the plant is very h 
and eafy of culture, increafing by its roots, which are fo 
In a moift rich foil, it will acquire the height of three oF 
four feet, and produce during the months of Auguft and 
tember abundance of flowers truly ga air z 
