NAT. ORDER 



Campanulacece. 



MICHAUXIA CAMPANULOIDES. ROUGH MICHAUXIA, 



Class VIII. OcTANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, sixteen-parted. Corolla, wheel-shaped, eight- 

 parted. Nectarium, eight-valved, staminate. Capsules, eight, 

 locular, polysperma. 



Spe. Char. Leaves, alternate, simple, deeply divided. Flowers, 

 single, in racemes or spikes. 



This is a biennial green-house plant, and of course only to be 

 raised from seeds. The corolla is monopetalous, inserted into the 

 top of the calyx, usually eight-lobed, and withering on the fruit ; 

 the stamens are inserted into the calyx, alternately with the lobes 

 of the corolla, to which they are equal in number ; the anthers are 

 two-celled and distinct ; the pollen is spherical ; the ovarium is in- 

 ferior, with two or more polyspermous cells opposite the stamens, 

 or alternate with them ; the style is simple, covered with collecting 

 hairs ; the stigma is naked, simple, or with as many lobes as there 

 are cells ; the fruit is dry, crowned by the withered calyx and 

 corolla, dehiscing by lateral, irregular apertures, or by valves at 

 the apex, always loculicidal ; the seeds are numerous, attached to 

 a placenta in the axis ; the embryo is straight, in the axis of fleshy 

 albumen ; radicle, inferior ; the leaves are almost always alternate, 

 simple, or deeply divided, without stipulas ; th.eJlowers are single, 

 in racemes, spikes, or panicles, or in heads usually blue or white, 

 but very rarely yellow. 



The celebrated author of the Hortus Kevensis informs us 

 that the plant here figured and described is a native of the Le- 



V'ol ii. — 75 



