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CAMPANULA Laflingii, 

 Lcejling^s Bellflower. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACEiE. 



CAMPANULA. Botanical Register, vol. S.fol. 237. 



C. Loejlingii ; caule ramosissimo multifloro angulis scabriusciilo, foliis crenu- 

 latis inferioribus ovatis reniformibus v. rotundo-coi'datis, superioribus 

 ovatis amplexicaulibus, calycis glabri tubo obconico, lobis longe acumi- 

 natis patulis corolla subbrevioribus, capsula obconica nervis eminenti- 

 bus. Alph. DeCand. Monogr. Camp. p. 335. Brotero Phyt. Lusit. 

 p. 41. t. 18. 



C, Broussonetiana. Romer ^' Schultes syst. veg. 5. p. 104. 



A beautiful little annual, found wild in sandy places all 

 over Portugal, also near Madrid, and in the country round 

 Mog-ador. M. Alphonse DeCandoUe observes that it has 

 the habit of C. patula, but diifers in being more branchy, 

 in having broader and less acute leaves, in its annual root 

 and deeply furrowed capsule. The latter is indeed remark- 

 able ; fig. 1. represents a transverse section of it; the three 

 carpels of which it is composed adhere only by the middle, 

 a circumstance by no means common among plants with an 

 inferior ovary, unless in the Umbelliferous order. 



The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society in July last. 



A pretty little half-hardy plant, growing from six to 

 nine inches high, and requiring a light rich sandy soil. The 

 seeds should be sown either in the month of August or 

 March, and treated in the same way as Rhodanthe Manglesii, 

 or similar half-hardy annuals, if sown in the autumn it 

 should be potted singly, and kept in small pots placed in a 

 dry situation free from frost during the winter — when sown 

 in the spring they may be kept in a cold frame, but where 



