PLATE XIV. 



1. CAMPANULA RAPUNCULOIDES. 



NETTLE- LEAVED CAMPANULA. 



THIS genus comprises various plants of the annual, biennial, and 

 perennial herbaceous flowery kind. The Bell-flower, 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Monogynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Campanacea. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a five-parted perianthium, 

 acute, erect-expanding, superior: the corolla is monopetalous, bell- 

 form, impervious at the base, half-five-cleft, marcescent: divisions 

 broad, acute, spreading : the nectary in the bottom of the corolla,- 

 composed of five valves, acute, converging, covering the receptacle: 

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

 the tips of the valves of the nectary : the anthers are longer than the 

 filaments, and compressed: the pistillum is an angular inferior germ: 

 the style filiform, longer than the stamens: the stigma three-parted y 

 oblong, thickish: divisions revolute: the pericarpium is a roundish 

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

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

 is columnar and adnale. 



The species mostly cultivated for the purposes of ornament and 

 use are: 3. C. pcrsicifolia, Peach-leaved Bell-flower; 2. C. pyramids - 

 fo, Pyramidal or Steeple Bell-flower; 3. C. carpatica, Carpathian or 

 Heart-leaved Bell-flower; 4. C. latifolia, Broad-leaved Campanula, 

 or Giant Throat-wort ; 5. C. trachelium, Great Throat-wort, or Nettle- 

 leaved Campanula; 6. C.'grandi flora, Great-flowered Bell-flower; 



7. C. medium, Small Pyramidal Campanula, or Canterbury Bells; 



8. C. speculum, Venus's Looking-glass; 9. C. Americana, American 



