covers the hairs which invest the capitate thickening 

 formed by the immature style branches. The anthers 

 then shrivel and are retracted into the base of the flower, 

 while the style elongates and its end becomes bent. 

 The young flowers are pendulous but become erect as 

 they grow older. This Campanula has long been in 

 cultivation at Kew, and the material for our plate has 

 been derived from a plant in the Rock Garden. It is a 

 hardy perennial, which grows well and flowers freely if 

 given a sunny position, preferably in well-drained 

 gravelly soil. It is readily propagated by cuttings as 

 well as by its seeds which ripen fairly freely. The 

 greatest difficulty connected with the cultivation of this 

 species is its liability to be attacked by slugs, to which it 

 seems to offer a peculiar attraction. 



Description. — Herh, 3|-4 in. in height. Leaves: 

 radical broadly ovate, about J in. long and £ in. broad, 

 glabrous except for the ciliate margin ; petiole about I in. 

 long; cauline oblanceolate, the lower long-petioled, the 

 upper nearly sessile, apiculate, cuneate at the base, 

 excluding the petiole nearly | in. long and J in. broad, 

 with 2-4 white teeth on the margin, midrib prominent 

 below, indistinct above, lateral nerves obscure on both 

 surfaces. Racemes terminal, 3-4-flowered ; bracts re- 

 sembling the leaves but smaller ; bracteoles linear, apicu- 

 late, yV-J; in. long, margin entire or with two white teeth. 

 Receptacle turbinate, T ] s in. high, -J in. in diameter at the 

 apex, glabrous, 5-lobed, the lobes each with 2 furrows. 

 Sepals 5, spreading, linear-attenuate, apiculate, J in. 

 long, glabrous, with 2-4 white teeth on the margin. 

 Corolla oblong-tubular, slightly narrowed in the upper 

 part, angular opposite to the lobes, about § in. long; 

 tube over | in. long, over { in. wide at the base, rather 

 less at the apex, glabrous; lobes 5, erect, connivent, 

 triangular, \ in. long, | in. broad, bearded with long 

 hairs at the apex within, with shorter hairs lower down. 

 Stamens 5; filaments J in. long, glabrous, very broad 

 and connate at the base ; anthers short. Ovary typically 

 trilocular with axile placentas; style over i in. long, 

 curved at the apex when mature, white, glabrous. 



Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same in longitudinal section: 3 and 4, stamens after 

 dehiscence ; 5, immature stigma -.—all enlarged. 



