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Campanula Azurea. Azure Campanula, 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charafler. 

 Cor. campanulata, fundo claufo valvis fbminiferis. Stignu 

 3-fidum. Cap/, infera poris lateralibus dehifcens. 



Specific Charatler. 

 CAMPANULA azurea; foliis ovato-oblongis feflilibus fer- 

 ratis [utrinque pilofis] caule fimplici angu- 

 lato floribus paniculatis. Banks Mjf. 



Descr. Stalk erecl, fimple, quadrangular, with raifed fub- 

 cartilagineous angles. Radical leaves few, petiolated, cordate- 

 ovate, ferrated, fomewhat hairy underneath, hairs few, thinly 

 fcattered, more about the margin than elfe where. Cauline 

 leaves alternate, feffile, oblong-ovate, acute, ferrate, thinly 

 haired. Peduncles panicled, long, filiform alternate, axillary, 

 and once or twice divided ; pedicels nodding with linear bractes. 

 Calyx pentagonal. Segments fubulate-filiform, more than halt 

 the length of the corolla. Segments of the corolla femiovate, 

 acute. 



We found confiderable difficulty in determining this fpecies, 

 till we fortunately found in the Bankfian Herbarium a fp ecl " 

 men in every refpecl correfponding with the one from which, 

 our drawing was made, by which we found that it had been 

 regarded by the late Dr. Solan der as a nondefcript fpecies, 

 and had been named by him Campanula azurea, and dil- 

 tinguifhed by the fpecific chara6ter above given. In both 

 fpecimens the leaves are fmooth on the upper fide, and have 

 very thinly fcattered hairs on the under fide ; on which ac- 

 count we have enclofed the words utrinque pilofis between 

 crotchets. In many refpefts it refembles lilifolia, but differs 

 in its angular ftalk, in the length of its calyx, and, as we be- 

 lieve, has very diffimilar roots. Was fent with other plants 

 from Switzerland to Mr. Swainson, by whom it was com- 

 municated to Mr. Salisbury at the Botanic Garden, Brompton, 

 where our drawing was made laft. The fpecimen in the Her- 

 barium flowered in the Botanic Garden at Chelfea in 177 » 

 and is marked as a native of Switzerland. It is a hardy per- 

 ennial, and, as an ornamental flower, worthy of culture. 



