NAT. ORDER. 

 Campanulacece. 



CAMPANULA MACRANTHA. GIANT BELL-FLOWER, 



0.ass V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, five cleft. Corolla, five-lobed, or five-cleft at 



the apex, bell-shaped. Stamens, five, free. Filanunts, broad 



at the base. Style, covered with hairs. Stigmas, three to five 



filiform. 

 Spe. Char. Capsule, tliree to five valved. Seeds, ovate, flattened. 



Leaves, radical, varying in size. Floicers, pedunculate. 

 The caly.v is a five-parted perianthium, acute, erect, expanding, 

 and superior; the corolla is a monopetalous, bell-form, impervious at 

 the base, half five-cleft, marcesceut ; divisions broad, acute, and 

 spreading ; the nectary in the bottom of the corolla, composed of five 

 valves, acute, converging, and covering the receptacle ; the stamens 

 consist of five capillary filaments, very short, inserted on the tips of 

 the valvs of the nectary ; tiie anthers are longer than the filaments, 

 and compressed ; the pistlllwn is an angular inferior germ ; the stijle 

 filiform, and longer than the stamens ; the stigma three-parted, oblong, 

 and thickish ; divisions revolutc ; the pericarpium is a roundish 

 angular capsule, tliree or five-celled, emitting the seeds at so many 

 lateral openings ; the seeds are small and numerous ; the receptacle 

 is columnar and adnate. There are various other species cultiva- 

 ted for ornamental and medical purposes. 



Campanula persicifolia. Peach leaved Bell-flower. This lias a 

 root resembling that of Navew, and eatable ; the stem is very 

 straight, eighteen inches or more high, (in gardens when cultivated, 

 from two to three feet) unbranched, angular, smooth, and also the 



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