Corolla spreading, semiquinquifid, violet-coloured : lacinie 
oval, 3—5-nerved. Capsule topshaped, grooved, opening 
by lateral pores just beneath the calycine segments. _ 
We are ignorant why the specific name of Lorei was 
given to this species ; we have, therefore, in our English 
name, called it Pollini’s Bell-flower ; because this author 
appears to have first described it in his Catalogue of the 
erona garden, for the year 1812. 
Native of Mount Baldi, in the Veronese. Communicated 
by Mr. Hopson, from the Botanic garden, at Bury St. 
Edmunds, by whose intelligent curator, Mr. Joun Denson, 
we are informed, that this very ornamental plant, if suffered 
to scatter its seeds spontaneously, will produce young plants 
in the autumn, which will abide the winter, and flower the 
following spring and summer. If sown in the spring, the 
plants will blossom later; and early frosts may prevent 
their ripening any seeds. The seeds were received from 
Mr. Fiscner, of the Botanic garden at Gottingen. © . 
