Campa.nales.] 



CAMPANULACE/E. 



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locality has a climate so different from that of our mountains, that it may be easily 

 imagined that the species capable of living there difter materially from those of our own 

 hemisphere : in fact, they belong to other genera." Of 300 sjiecies only If) are found 

 within the tropics. The same Botanist remarks that, with only a single exception, all 

 the species belonging to genera that open theii* capsule by lateral pores are found in 

 the northern hemisphere ; while those whose capsules dehisce at the apex chiefly inhabit 

 the southern hemisphere. 



The milky juice is rather acrid, but nevertheless the roots and young shoots of some 

 species, particularly of Campanula Rapunculus, or Rami>ion, of Phyteuma spicatum, of 

 Canarina Campanula, &c., are an occasional article of food. The chief value of the 

 Order, however, is its beauty. The roots of Phyteumas are said to be antisyphilitic ; 

 that of Campanula glauca is held by the Japanese to be a tonic, and scarcely inferior to 

 Ginseng. The Specularias Speculum and pentagonia have been used in salads ; the 

 flowering plant of Wahlenbergia graminifoMa is used by the mountaineers of the South 

 of Em'ope against epilepsy. Wahlenbergia linarioides is employed in Chili in tormina. 

 The half-fleshy fruit of Canax'uia Campanula is said to be eatable. The tuberous root of 

 Cypliia digitata is said to be eaten by Hottentots. 



GENERA. 



I. Jasione.e. 

 Jasione, L. 

 Aphyllanthes, Dale- 

 champ. 

 Ovilla, Adans. 



II. LlGHTFOOTE^. 



Lightfootia, Herit. 

 Cephalostigma, Alph.DC. 



Tritamidium, Endl. 

 Campanumsea, Blume. 

 Codonopsis, Wall. 

 Glossocomia, D. Don. 



Megasanthes, G. Don. 

 Canarina, Juss. 



Canaria, Linn. 



Pernetya, Scop. 

 Platycodon, Alph. DC. 

 Microcodon, Alph. DC. 



Calotheca, Alph. DC. 

 Wahlenbergia, Schrad, 



Codonia, Spr. 



Aikinia, Salisb. 



Schultesia, Roth. 



Campanopsis, R. Br. 



Nesophila, Alph. DC. 



Cervicina, Del. 

 Heterochaenia, Alph. DC. 



III. Prismatocarpe^. 



Prismatocarpus, Al. DC. 

 Roella, L. 



Aciileosa, Plukn. 

 Edraianthus, Alph. DC. 



IV. Campandle.e. 

 Phyteuma, L. 



Rapunculus, Tounief. 



Rapuntium, Lobel. 



Physoplexis, Endl. 



Synotoma, G. Don. 

 Petromanila, Alph. DC. 

 Michauxia, Herit. 



Mindium, Adans. 

 Campanula, L. 



Depierrea, Schl. 



Medium, Toumef. 



Marianthemum, Schnk. 



Rapuntium, Chev. 



Roucela, Dumort. 



Eritiia, Noul. 

 Specularia, Heist. 



Prismatocarpus, Herit. 



Apenula, Neck. 



Legouzia, Durand. 



Dysmicodon, Endl. 



Triodallus, Raf. 

 Trachelium, L. 

 Adenophora, Fisch. 



Fliirkea, Spr. 

 SjTnphyandra, Alph.DC. 

 Musschia, Dumort. 

 Rhigiophyllum, Hochst. 

 Cyphia, L. 



Cyphium, Gmel. 



Anomalous Genera, 



Merciera, Alph. DC. 

 Pentaphragma, Wall. 

 Sphenoclea, Gcertn. 



Pongatium, Juss. 



Gcertnera, Retz. 



Rapinia, Lour. 



Numbers. Gen. 28. Sp. 500. 



SolanacecB. 

 Position. — Asteracese. — Campanulace^. — Lobeliacese. 

 Vacciniacece. 



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