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* CAMPANULA fragilis, (3. Ursula. 

 Hairy-leaved brittle Bell-jlower. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYIVJ^. 



Nat. ord. Campanulace^ Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 185.) 



CAMPANULA.— Supra, vol. \,fol. 5Q. 



C fragilis; caulibus ascenclentibus diffusis ramosis, foliis radicallbus long^ petio- 

 latis cordatis rotundatis obtuse crenato-lobatis, caulinis minoribus ovatis et 

 lanceolatis, floribus paniculatis, lobis calycinis lineari-lanceolatis erectis 

 coroUse subsequalibus, stylo exserto, capsula ovoidea. Alp. De Cand. 

 Monogr. des Camp. 306. 



C. fragilis. Cyrill. plant, fasc. \. p. 32. M 1./. 2. 



C. diffusa. Vahl. Symb.p. 11. 



C. cochlearifolia. Vahl. Symb.p. IS. 



C. crassifolia. Nees v. Esenb. Syll. Ratisb. 1. 6. amcen. hot. fasc. 2. p. 9. t. 4. 



A native of the southern parts of Italy, in many places 

 of which it is by no means uncommon, as in the neigbourhood 

 of Naples, the island of Capri, about Cava, on Mount Pollino, 

 and probably elsewhere in Calabria, according- to Alphonse 

 de Candolle, who remarks that it is hardly met with further 

 north than 41° of latitude, that it occupies the evergreen 

 region of Italy, and that it even struggles through the lower 

 woodland region as far almost as the upper limits of the 

 beech, that is to say to 3000 feet of elevation above the sea. 

 It grows in exceedingly dense tufts, hanging down from the 

 face of limestone rocks; and flowering in the summer months. 



In its native stations it is one of the most lovely objects 

 imaginable. Often have we heard travellers from Italy ex- 

 patiating upon the beauty of the spots which are enamelled 



* The English name Bell-flower, and the Latin Campanula, equally 

 refer to the form of the corolla. 



