CI. f).] CAMPANULACE.E. 117 



Orel. 52. Campanulace^e. " Calyx superior, it's 

 limb deeply divided; rarely half-interior. Corolla 

 (inserted into the top of the Calyx Juss.) mostly re- 

 gular, with a divided limb, generally withering. Sta- 

 mens inserted into the same part under the Corolla, 

 alternate with it's segments, and equal to them in 

 number, generally 5, with distinct, occasionally com- 

 bined, Anthers. Germen glandular at the top. Style 1. 

 Stigma single or divided. Capsule usually of 3 cells, 

 sometimes of 2, 5, 6, or 8, bursting laterally. Seeds 

 numerous, attached to the inner angle of each cell. 

 Herbs with a milky juice, rarely shrubby. Leaves 

 mostly alternate. Flowers distinct, or (in Jasione) 

 aggregate." 



It is not easy to divine what is meant by Jussieu's 

 expression of the Corolla being " summo calyci in- 

 serta." Both those parts and the Stamens are really 

 epigynous. We cannot trace the slightest relationship 

 between this Order and the Erica or Rhododendra. 

 But their milky, often bitter, quality, and in some 

 New Holland species a very strong resemblance of 

 habit, approaches them to the great natural class of 

 Compound Syngenesious Flowers, from which their 

 generally 3-celled, many-seeded, Capsule forms as 

 wide an aberration, as the same sort of fruit in Bego- 

 nia does from the natural Order of Polygonece, n. 28, 

 to which that singular genus is otherwise so much 

 akin. Phytolacca exhibits a somewhat similar ano- 

 maly in the Atriplices, n. 29. 



