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sometimes proves very dry at this time of the year, in that 

 case it will be proper to give them a gentle watering three 

 or four days after they are planted; and to cover the beds 

 with mats every day, to prevent the sun from drying the 

 earth ; but these must be taken off in the evening, that the 

 dew may fall on the g.wind. Towards the end of October 

 the bed should be covered over with some old tanner's bark 

 to keep out the frost, and where there is not a conveniency 

 of covering them with frames, they should be arched over 

 with hoops, that in severe frosts they may be covered with 

 mats ; for these plants when young are often destroyed in 

 winter, where this care is wanting. In the spring the cover- 

 ing must be removed, and the plants kept clean from weeds 

 during 1 the following summer; and if the season should prove 

 very dry, they must now and then be refreshed with water. 

 The following autumn, the surface of the ground should be 

 stirred between the plants, and some fresh earth spread over 

 the beds, and in winter covered as before. In these beds the 

 plants may remain two years, during which time they must 

 be treated in the manner before directed, by which time 

 the roots will be strong enough to flower : in September 

 they should be carefully taken up, and some of the most pro- 

 mising planted in pots ; the others may be planted into 

 warm borders, or in a fresh bed, at a greater distance than 

 before, to allow them room to grow. Those plants which 

 are potted, should be sheltered in winter; and those in the 

 full ground, should have some old tanner's bark laid round 

 them, to prevent the frost injuring the roots. 



9. Campanula Americana ; American Bell-flower. Leaves 

 cordate, and lanceolate serrate ; petioles of the lower ciliate ; 

 flowers axillary, sessile ; corollas five-parted, flat ; styles 

 longer than the corolla. Root annual ; stem and germina 

 smooth ; leaves acuminate ; flowers three or more from each 

 axil or bracte. Native of Pennsylvania ; flowers in July. 



10. Campanula Lilifolia ; Lily-leaved Bell-flower. Leaves 

 lanceolate ; stem-leaves sharply serrate ; flowers panicled 

 nodding. It is singular in this plant, that the stem, before it 

 produces the panicle, puts out leaves in a kind of rose, 

 which, when the panicle comes forth, are dispersed about 

 the stem. It is perennial, and varies much in the colour and 

 size of the flower, quantity of branches, hardness and soft- 

 ness, smoothness and roughness, of the leaves. It flowers 

 most part of the summer ; and was found from the Jaick 

 eastward to the very confines of China, where the roots, 

 both boiled and raw, are eaten by the inhabitants. 



11. Campanula Rhomboidea ; Germander-leaved Bell- 

 flower. Leaves rhomboid, serrate ; spike one-ranked ; ca- 

 lices toothed. Root creeping, perennial; stem erect, smooth, 

 from six, eight, or ten, to eighteen inches in height, un- 

 branched ; leaves few, tender, smooth, ending in a point ; 

 the upper ones smaller ; corollas blue, sometimes white, 

 short, and swelling ; calix capillary. Native of the moun- 

 tains of Switzerland, Dauphiny, Carniola, and Italy, on 

 mount Cenis. It flowers in July. 



12. Campanula Unindentata ; One-toothed Bell-flower. 

 Erect, smooth ; leaves lanceolate, acute, one-toothed on 

 each side ; panicle divaricated, leafy ; stems extremely 

 simple. Native of the Cape. 



13. Campanula Capillacea; Five-leaved Bell-flower. Her- 

 baceous erect ; leaves filiform, smooth; panicle terminal ; 

 flowers alternate. Native of the Cape. 



14. Campanula Linearis ; Linear- Leaved Bell-flower. Her- 

 baceous, erect ; leaves linear, entire, smooth ; flowers 

 drooping ; capsules hispid. Native of the Cape. 



15. Campanula Lobelioides ; Lobi-.lia-llke Bell-flower. 

 Small stems round, stiff, smooth ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 



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tocthletted; corollas nearly funnel-form, trifid, and quadrifid. 

 This species, as its name signifies, has the air of a Lobelia, 

 the same tenderness, divided in the same manner, and even 

 the same inflorescence. Perianth three or five-leaved; leaf- 

 lets ovate, obtuse, permanent ; corollas very small, purplish 

 white, twice as long as the calix, funnel-form ; tube round, 

 gradually widened ; segments erect. It varies with the calix 

 and corolla, three and five-parted, and ef en with three and 

 five stamina ; the capsule also is two-celled. It flowers in 

 July and August. Native of Madeira. 



16. Campanula Carpatica ; Carpathian or Heart-leaved 

 Bell-flower. Leaves smooth, cordate, serrate, petioled ; 

 branches filiform, one-flowered. This pours out a milky 

 juice when wounded ; the root is whitish, and perennial ; 

 stems herbaceous, annual, weak, hardly branching, bearing 

 one or very few flowers. In gardens it becomes branching 

 and many-flowered: the root-leaves are kidney-form, round- 

 ish ; the peduncle elongated and smooth ; the corolla blue. 

 It flowers the whole summer, and was first observed on the 

 Carpathian Alps. It is yet scarce in our gardens, but de- 

 serves to be more generally known and cultivated, its flowers 

 being large and showy in proportion to the plant ; and, like 

 many other alpine plants, being well suited to decorate rock- 

 work, or such borders of the flower-garden as are not 

 adapted to large plants. It is a perennial plant ; and 

 may be propagated by parting the root. 



17. Campanula Grandiflora; Great-flowered Bell-flower. 

 Leaves tern, oblong, serrate ; stem one-flowered ; flower 

 spreading. The whole plant is very smooth ; root perennial, 

 white, fusiform, the thickness of a finger, and branched ; 

 stems few, erect, or ascending, simple, round, a foot high, 

 leafy all over, annual, terminated with one handsome flower, 

 but without scent, nodding a little ; with sometimes one or 

 two flowers more from the upper axillas ; corolla two inches 

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

 veins, elegantly pear-shape, before expanding, and at first 

 green ; no holes in the capsule : it flowers in June and the 

 beginning of July, and ripens its seeds in August. Native 

 of Siberia. 



18. Campanula Aurea , Golden Bell-flower. Capsules 

 five-celled ; leaves elliptic, serrate, smooth ; flowers subpani- 

 cled, five-parted ; stem shrubby, fleshy. It flowers in Au- 

 gust and September. Grows i.i Madeira. 



19. Campanula Tenella. Stems diffused, filiform; leaves 

 ovate, sometimes one-toothed, reflex; flowers solitary, termi- 

 nal. Stem detemiinately branched and hard ; branches sim- 

 ple, and covered with leaflets ; calix glossy, acute ; corolla 

 rive-parted. The leaves are seldom without a lateral tooth. 

 Found at the Cape. 



20. Campanula Purosa; Porous-stalked Bell-flov.>er. Leaves 

 lanceolate, glossy ; stem erect, porous, with dots up- 

 wards. This is a plant difficult to be distinguished ; unless 

 by the pores, scarcely distinguishable by the naked eye, 

 which penetrate into the stem, not downward but upwards ; 

 stem round, a foot high, erect ; branches numerous, erect, 

 short ; the upper leaves linear, even, quite entire ; racemes 

 terminal, erect ; flowers small, rather erect ; calix shorter by 

 half than the corolla, even, with lanceolate segments. 

 Native of the Cape. 



21. Campanula Undulata. Leaves lanceolate, tooth-waved ; 

 flowers subsolitary, peduncled. Stem a foot and a half high, 

 erect, filiform, glossy, somewhat branched at top ; leaves 

 sessile, reflected at the edge, subdecurrent, repand, some- 

 what glossy ; peduncles terminal, long, leafless: flowers the 

 size of the fourth species ; calix glossy, with short acuminate 

 teeth. Native of the Cape. 



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