64 NAT. ORDER. CAMPANULACEiE. 



Campanula trachelium. Great Throat-wort or Nettle-leaved 

 Campanula. This species has a perennial root ; the stems grow 

 from two to three feet in height, upright, stiff, hairy, angular, the 

 angels membranaceous, putting out a few short side-branches ; the 

 leaves resembling those of the great nettle, but rather shorter and 

 broader, aUernatc, ovate, cordate, pointed, hairy, deeply toothed, 

 some times having two or three lobes ; petioled, except the upper 

 ones, which are sessile; the peduncles are alternate, axillary, trifid, 

 and three-flowered. The number of flowers, however, varies from 

 one to two and sometimes three and four, and even five; they are 

 large and nodding. It is a native of the United States, but ii^found 

 all over Europe. It produces its flowers in July and August. There 

 are also varieties, with single and double blue flowers, with single 

 and double white flowers, and with single and double pale purple 

 flowers. 



Campanula grandijiora. Great-flowered Bell-flower. In tliis 

 species the whole plant is very smooth ; the root is perennial, white, 

 fusiform, the thickness of a finger, and branched ; the stems are few, 

 erect, or ascending, simple, round, about a foot higli, leafy all over, an- 

 nual, terminated with one handsome flower, but witliout scent, nodding 

 a little, with sometimes one or two flowers more from the upper axillas ; 

 the leaves are Lrregularly scattered, sessile or on very short petioles, 

 ovate, or subcordate, short and sharply serrate ; sometimes a few of 

 the leaves, and at others all of them are in threes ; the corolla is 

 two inches in diameter or more, very deep blue, with numerous blue 

 veins; elegantly pear-shaped before expanding, and at first green. 

 It flowers in June and beginning of July, and is a native of Siberia. 



Campanula medium. Canterbury Bells. This plant has a bien- 

 nial root ; the leaves are oblong, rough, hairy, serrate, coming out 

 without order from the root narrowing into a petiole. I<'rom the 

 centre of these the second season, arises a stiff, hairy, furrowed stalk 

 about two feet high, sending out several lateral branches, with long, 

 narrow, hairy, serrate, sessile leaves, placed alternately ; from the 



