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CAMPANULA SARMATICA. Grey-LEaven 
| Be.i-F Lower. seek 
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Class and Order. 
Ee a Monoeynia. 
Generie Character. 
Cor. campanulata, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. Stigma 
3-fidum. Caps, infera, poris lateralibus dehiscens. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CAMPANULA sarmatica ; capsulis obtectis, foliis tomentosis : 
inferioribus cordato-lanceolatis petiolatis, superioribus 
oblongis sessilibus, floribus secundis cernuis, germinibus 
lanatis. Bot. Reg. 237. © 
Campanuta betonicefolia ; cum charactere supra dato. 
Bieb. Fl. taur. caus. 1. p. 153. n. 382. 
Oss. Nomen betonicifolia alie Campanule speciei in prod- 
romo Flore Greece jampridem relatum fuit. 
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This plant is the Campanuta betonicefolia of Marscuaut 
a. Breserstern’s Flora taurico-caucasica ; but that name 
having been applied to a different species two years before the 
publication of his work, by Prof. Jamzs E. Smirn in his 
Prodromus Flore Grece, Mr. Ker, in the Botanical Register, . 
has changed the specific name to Sarmatica ; a step we should 
hardly have taken, because if that of betonicifolia had not 
been published before the appearance of the Prodromus, the 
plant must have been more early known to Russian botanists 
by that name and communicated to other countries, as we 
received it ourselves, under the same, from Mr. Loppices, 
in June 1805. a. Pg ie | 
It is a hardy perennial, remarkable for the grey colour of 
its leaves, which are harsh and very rugose, oblong-cordate, - 
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