47. 



CAMPANULA PEREGRINA. 



Rough Bell-flower. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



Class 5. Order 1. 



Campanula: from Carapana, a little bell, from the shape of the 

 corolla. 



Linn. gen. n. 218. Willd. Sp. PI. 1 . p. 906. Reich. Sp. PI. p. 462. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cat. Perianth five-parted, acute, erect, expanding, superior. Cor. 

 Monopetalous, bell-form, impervious at the base, half five-cleft, 

 marcescent ; divisions broad, acute, spreading. Nectary in the 

 bottom of the corolla, composed of five valves, acute, converging, 

 covering the receptacle. Stam. Filaments five, capillary, very 

 short, inserted on the tips of the valves of the nectary ; anthers 

 longer than the filaments, compressed. Pist. Germ angular, in- 

 ferior : style filiform, longer than the stamens ; stigma three-parted, 

 oblong, thickish j divisions revolute. Per. Capsule roundish, an- 

 gular, three- or five-celled, emitting the seeds at so many lateral 

 openings. Seeds numerous, small. Recep. columnar, adnate. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves ovate, rough j stem simple, hairy ; corolla spreading. 



Stem herbaceous, from eighteen inches to two feet in height, 

 round, hairy, and of a bkieish colour. Leaves ovate, covered 



