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 CHELONE CAMPANULOIDES. | 
: -Bell-flowered Chelone. | 
grt CRASS MY... ORDER <I. 
_DIDYNAM 14 ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered, 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx 5-partitus. Rudimentum filamenti quinti EmpaLeMENT of five divifions. The rudiment 
inter fuprema ftamina. Capfula bilocula- of a fifth thread is found placed between 
ris. cs : the upper chives. Capfule of two cells. 
es ; See Plate XXXIV. Cuetone Rvex.iorpes. 
S * SPECIFIC “CHARACTER. 
Chelone foliis oppofitis, feffilibus, acuminatis, || Chelone with oppofite leaves fitting clofe to the 
profunde ferratis; corollis campanulatis, ftem, tapering to the point, and deeply 
_ purpureis. ws fawed; bloffoms bell-fhaped, and purple. 
a . q 
& REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
a A — cut open, to fhew the fituation of the four Chives, and ftation of the fifth imperfect 
2. The re (natural fize). 
3. The Seed-veffel, with the Empalement and Shaft ftill remaining attached. 
SE eee 
; Wes fpecies of Chelone is of the fame date in our gardens as the Chelone Ruellioides, and was intro- 
duced tl ame medium: it is a native of Mexico in South America; will make a pretty 
—_ plies iccitaomds exotics; and is defcribed and engraved by A.J.Cavanilles, in his firft volume 
ifh plants. It feems to thrive beft in rich, dungy earth, and is eafily propagated by cuttings, 
‘or feeds; of which latter it produces abundance; but does not appear to be long lived. The plant 
ein of B this figure was taken, flowered (as we fuppofe for the firft time in England) in the col- 
Ctio Fat B. Robertfon, Efq. of Stockwell in Surry, and kindly communicated by him to the author. 
