PLATE CCCLUEXV. 
CAMPANULA LACINIATA. 
— _ Ragwort-leaved Bell Flower. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Corotza campanulata, fundo clauso valvis sta- 
miniferis. Stigma3-fidum. Capsula in- 
fera, poris lateralibus dehiscens. 
by staminiferous valves. Summit 3-cleft. : 
| Corouta bell-shaped with the mouth closed 
Capsule beneath, gaping with lateral pores. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
CAMPANULA, capsulis obtectis pedunculatis, Bert Frower, with pedunculated covered 
, foliis serratis ; radicalibus lyratis ; caulinis capsules, and serrated leaves ; the root ones 
%, | lanceolatis. lyrated ; the stem ones spear-shaped. 
Campanouta laciniata. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 911. ; 
Campanuta Greca, saxatilis, Jacobex foliis. Tourn. Voyage 1.201. cum icone.—Coroll. Inst. Ret 
_ Herb. 3. 
Descriptfo. Herba undique villosa. Radix biennis. Folia radicalia lyrato-pinnatifida, pinnulis incisis ; 
caulina alterna, sublanceolata, inciso-serrata. ibe ee bracteis subovatis dentatis instructi. Flores 
numerosi cerulei. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
‘1. The empalement. 
~ 2. The blossom laid open. » 
= 3. The seed-bud, chives and pinta. 
4. A chive magnified. 
5. The seed-bud and pointal, the summit magnified. 
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Tue pina laciniata, although introduced into the British FGedios so long since as the year 1790, 
is still a very scarce species: this is not owing to a want of beauty, but to its having a biennial root, 
_ and not perfecting its seeds well, except in favourable situations. It was originally discovered by the 
— celebrated French traveller and botanist Tournefort, about a century since, on a remarkable rock in the 
Island of Sikino in Greece ; where he appears to have been highly delighted with its beauty and appear- 
"ance, and says it is “‘ the fairest Campanula in all Greece*.” However applicable this encomium 
may have been in those days, it ceases to be so now; for, without detracting from the fairness and 
beauty of the present plant, we have in cultivation another Grecian —— = more fair and 
beautiful, and much more rare, which we hope soon to have the pl 
The Ragwort-leaved Campanula is usually treated as an alps plant, and wintered i in a frame : 
ae es. Sas seeds, om is ent of superfluous moisture. 
'* Tournefort’s Voyage, voli. page 201: 4 
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