: = a | 
. PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
ticed by Mr. J. Bradbury, near the lead mines of St. Louis 
on the Missisippi; it is also abundant as far down the ri- 
ver as Natchez. * ; 
The B. serrata, inadvertently described by Mr. Pursh, - 
Was nothing more than a young branch of the Prunus ca- 
roliniana without flowers, which I had collected near the 
town of Natchez on the Missisippi. 1 have thought it no | 
less than my duty to the public to rectify this mistake, | 
without, I hope, intending any personal reflection, as we ‘| 
as 
are all equally liable to prevailing error. ‘ <i 
‘The rest of this genus, exclusively American, is confin-, 
ed to the West India islands. . ] 
44 Flowers monopetalous, superior. #4 
209. CAMPANULA. (Bell-flower.) =. | 
- Calix mostly 5-cleft. Corolla campanulate, 
__ the base closed with 5 staminiferous valves. 
_ Stigma 3 to 5-cleft. Capsule inferior, 3 or rare- 
ly 5-celled, opening by lateral pores. 
__ Lactescent; herbaceous or rarely suffruticose; flowers 
~~ ~~practeate, axillary, sotitary or fusctcutate; sometimes in 
_ terminal spikes or panicles; in a few species the corolla is 
_- Mearlyrotate. Ms ae 
~~ Spreres. 1. C.rotundifolia. Well named decipiens by 
_ Persoon, as there are very seldom any round leaves to be 
_ seen on the plant. 2. divaricata. 3. americana. 4. acuntina- 4 
~ ta. 5. nitida. 6. Erinoides. (C. flexuosa? Mich. C. apari- 
= noides, Pursh.) § 11. Lecousra. Corolla salver-form. ‘a 
Stigma 2 or 3-cleft. Capsule prismatic-cylindric, 2 or - 
_ gelled, many-seeded.—7. amplexicaulis.. (C. bifora? Flor. 
_Peruv.) ; 
d by the Cape of Good Hope; in the whole con- —_ 
Serer tem aiect 2 species described, 
ed, 1 or2 of the segments very 
