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* CAMI'ANULA Portenschlagiana. 

 Dalmatian Wall Campanula. 



PENTANDRIA MO'NOGYNIA. 



Nat. Old. Campanulace^. 

 CAMPANULA. Suprd, vol. l.fol. 56. 



C. Portenschlagiana ; caule suberecto, foliis inter se aequalibus petiolatis cor- 

 datis rotuudatis acutfe anguloso-deiitatis, floribus racemosis, lobis calycinis 

 subulatis corolla subinfuiidibuliformi triplo brevioribus. Alph. DeCand. 

 Monof/r. J). 303. 



C. Portenschlagiana. Rmn. et Schult. syst, 5. 93. Visiani stirp. dalm. spec, 

 p. 29. et 54. 



C. muralis. Herb. Portenschl. 



A pretty little herbaceous Campanula, introduced with 

 so many more rarities by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, to 

 whom I am obliged for a specimen. 



It is a native of walls and rocks in Dalmatia, where it 

 has been recently found by several Botanists, and is hardy in 

 the milder parts of Great Britain. Like C. garganica, and 

 fragilis, it however succeeds best if kept in a greenhouse 

 in winter. 



Two states of the species are named by M. Alphonse 

 DeCandolle, the one quite smooth, the other velvety with 

 down. The only wild specimens I have seen belong to the 

 former, as does the garden plant ; they were gathered near 

 Zara by Visiani. The flowers are smaller, and the stems 

 more diffuse and delicate than when cultivated, and the 



* See fol. 1738. 



