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PHYTEUMA CAMPANULOIDES. ‘'THREE- 
FLOWERED PHYTEUMA, 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoONnoGYNIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cor. rotata, laciniis. linearibus, g-partita. Stigma 2-feu 3- 
fidum. Cuap/. 2-feu 3-locularis infera. 
Specific Charafer. 
PHYTEUMA campanuloides ; floribus fparfis fubternis, caule 
fimplice eretto, foliis ovatis crenatis fubtus 
pubefcentibus feffilibus. 
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Descr. Stem ere, fimple. Leaves egg-fhaped, crenate, 
hairy on the underfide, varying in width, crowded at the lower 
part of the ftem, more diftant upwards. Flowers terminal, in 
long compounded racemes, generally growing three together 
on very fhort pedicles. Bra leaf-like, quite entire, longer 
than pedicle. Calyx connate with germen, 5 cleft: fegments 
linear. Corclla wheel-fhaped ; lacinie 5, linear-lanceolate, 
Tecurved. Stamens 5: Filaments dilated at the bafe as in Cam- 
Panula: Anibers linear. Germen inferior, egg-fhaped, angular, 
downy: Style longer than ftamens: Stigma 3-cleft, revolute. 
Capfule g-celled. Seeds many, affixed to a central branched 
Teceptacle. 
This ornamental plant was communicated by Mr. Lop- 
DiGes, who raifed it from feeds received from Mount Cau- | 
cafus, under the name of Puyrsuma canc/cens ; but as there 
1s nothing hoary about it, and we have found the fame in a 
colle@tion from that country in the Bankfian Herbarium, with 
aucket denoting that it is the campanuloides of BieBERSTEIND 
we have adopted the latter name, which this refpe€table author 
may probably have given it in his Flora Taurica, a work that 
€ announced fome time fince, but which, if publifhed, has 
Not we believe as yet found its way into this country. 
A hardy perennial ; flowers in July and Auguft; may be 
Propagated by parting its roots. 
