A very full account of the species is given in our friend 

 M. Alphonse De Candolle's admirable Monograph of the 

 true Campanulas. Ue appears, however, to have been only- 

 acquainted with it from the figure in Ventenat, and from a 

 dried specimen in the Herbarium of the same Botanist. 



Our specimens were communicated in August last by 

 A. B. Lambert, Esq. ; and we are obliged to Mr. Don for 

 the following remarks upon the species, as well as for the 

 character given above. 



" There cannot be a doubt as to the identity of this, Fischer's 

 Michauxia decandra, and the lavigata of Ventenat Jard. de Cels. 

 t. 81. As to the number of stamens, they are found to vary both in 

 iavigaia and campanuloides. The chief distinctions of lavigata are 

 the undivided radical leaves, the smooth stem, and the greater short- 

 ness of the calycine laciniae. 



" Dr. Graham has described it in a recent Number of the Edin- 

 burgh New Philosophical Journal, and has rightly determined it to 

 be IcBvigata, although it does not appear he had campanuloides to 

 compare. 



" I ought to observe, that the flowers of lavigata are more often 

 decandrous than octandrous, although M. Alphonse De Candolle 

 makes both uniformly 8-androus, which is incorrect, as is shewn by 

 Ventenat's description. The character derived from the petioles is 

 not constant, for they are even most dilated in lavigata, contrary to 

 M. Alphonse De Candolle's observation." 



We presume this is a frame perennial. It is at present 

 exceedingly rare; but being in Mr. Lambert's liberal hands, 

 it will soon become more common, if it be practicable to 

 increase it. 



J. L. 



