in gardens near London, is the néarest ally of the present plant, but is 
distinguished from it by having diffuse ascending stems, and smaller ovate 
or lanceolate stem leaves. 
It is a curious fact in the distribution of plants, that all the species 
belonging to the section of perennial Campanulas which have erect capsules 
and usually rotate corollas, sixteen in number,* are almost limited to Italy, 
Greece, and the immediately adjacent regions, except that C. argentea, Lam., 
extends as far as Armenia, and C. macrorhiza, Gay, into Spain. 
EXPLANATION OF Pirate LXXX.—Fig. 1, dehiscent capsule, showing 
the erect calyx-lobes, magnified. Figs. 2 and 3, leaves from other speci- 
mens than those figured, of the natural size, 2 being one of the lower, 
and 3 the lowest leaf. 
* DC., Prodr., lc. 
