136. PENTANDRIA. MOIfOGTXTA. 



ticed by Mr. .1. Bradbury, near the lead mines of St. Louis 

 on the Missisippi; it is also abundant as far down the ri- 

 ver as Natchez. 



The B. serrata, inadvertently described by Mr. Pursh, 

 was nothing more ilian a young- branch of the Prnnus ca- 

 roliniana without flowers, which 1 had collected near the 

 town of Natchez on the Missisippi. 1 have thought it no 

 less than my duty to the public to rectify this mistake, 

 without, I hope, intending any personal reflection, as we 

 are all equally liable to prevailing error. 



Tiie rest of this genus, exclusively American, is confin» 

 ed to the West India islands. 



Iff Flowers monopetalou^f superior, 



209. CAMPANULA. (Bell-flower.) 



Calix mostly 5-cIcft. Corolla campanulate, 

 the base closed with 5 staminiferous valves. 

 Stigma 3 to 5-cleft. Capsule inferior, 3 or rare- 

 jy 5-celled, opening by latpral poros. 



Lactescent? herbaceous or rarely suffrutlcose; flowers 

 bracteate, axillary, solitary or fasciculate, sometimes in 

 terminal spikes or panicles; in a few species the corolla is 

 nearly rotate. 



Species. 1. C.rotundifoUa. 'KV &\\ n^xneCi de dpi ens hy 

 Persoon, as there are very seldom any round leaves to be 

 seen on the plant. 2. divaricafa. 3. americana. 4. acumina- 

 ta. S.iiitida. 6. Krinoides. {C. Jlexuosa? Mich. C. apari' 

 noides, Purs'^..) § ii. Legousia. Corolla salver-form. 

 Stigma 2 or 3-cleft. Capsule prismatic-cylindvic, 2 or 3- 

 celled, many-seeded. — 7. amplexlcauUs. (C. bijlora.^ Fior, 

 Peruv.) 



This vast genus of more than a hundred species is in 

 great part indigenous to Europe, extending into Barbary 

 in Africa, and Siberia in Asia, as well as the Levant, a 

 considerable number of the species are rare and alpine; in 

 the soulhei-n hemisphere there are scarcely any but what 

 are afforded by the Cape of Good Hope; in the whole con- 

 tinent of South America tlicre are but 2 species described, 

 viz. the C. ^/i /if ormis oi' Ch'iVi, and the C. infiora oi' i^tvu, 

 apparently the same plant as the C.amplexicanlis of North 

 America. 



£10. PINCKNEYA. J\hchaux. 



Calix 5-partcd, 1 or 2 of the segments very 



