Puate LXXX. 
CAMPANULA tsopHyLia, Morett. 
Natural Order CAMPANULACE. 
Gen, Cuar.—“ Perennial, rarely annual herbs. Radical leaves usually 
petioled, cauline alternate. lowers spiked or racemed, white, blue, or 
lilac. Calyx-tube ovoid or subglobose; limb flat or folded at the sinus, 
Corolla campanulate or rotate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, epigynous, filaments 
short, bases broad, dilated; anthers linear, free. Ovary-cells 3-5, oppo- 
site the sepals; style clavate, with rows of deciduous hairs opposite the 
anther-cells, stigmas 3-5 filiform. Capsuje ovoid or turbinate, 3-5 celled, 
cells dehiscing below or above the calyx limb by pores or valves. Seeds 
usually flattened.”—Hooker, Student's Flora of Brit. Is. p. 225. 
Spec. Cuar.—Flowers large, lilac, or rarely white, in compact ter- 
minal corymbs. Calyx lobes lanceolate acute (‘sometimes toothed,” 
DC.*), glabrous or finely pubescent, about half as long as corolla, spread- 
ing in flower, erect in fruit. Corolla rotato-campanulate, lobes from 
haif to two-thirds as long as tube. Style exsert. Capsule subturbinate, 
dehiscing by pores at the base, erect. Seeds minute, elliptic, compressed, 
shining yellow brown. Leaves roundish cordate, crenate, more or less 
deeply toothed, the lowest often reniform, all being otherwise nearly uni- 
form in shape, petiolate, pubescent. Stems suberect. 
Campanula isophylla, Morett. Append. ad Schow. prosp. fl. Ital. p. 22; 
C. floribunda, Viv. Fl. Lyb. append de FI. Ital. p. 67; Woods, Tour. 
Fl. p. 239. 
Hasitat.—Promontory of Caprazoppa between Noli and Finale, where 
I gathered the specimens figured Oct. 26, 1870. 
Remarks.—This beautiful Campanula is only known to grow along 
the small strip of coast, about two-and-a-half miles in length, from the 
promontory of Caprazoppa to near the little town of Noli, and is a 
singular parallel to the case of Convolvulus sabatius, Viv. (see Plate LXI. 
Part III.), which is also peculiar to this district. It is very difficult. 
to understand why it is that Campanula isophylla, Morett, should be 
so restricted in its area, and the more so as it produces large quantities 
of seed, which, as I have proved, germinate freely, and which are so 
minute that they might be transported to any distance by the wind alone, 
or adhere, without causing inconvenience, to the feet of small birds when 
wetted by hopping in dewy grass, &c. 
Campanula fragilis, a plant from Naples and Sicily, frequently cultivated 
* DC., Prodr. vii. 476. 
