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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection. 
1 Vioter Coloured AFRICAN CAMPANULA, 
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| HE Numbers of handfome Plants of 
_ . the Campanula Kind we at this Time 
- : _ raife in our Gardens, need not fhut 
P. IX. ‘their Door againft an Addition of the fame Kind. 
_ From their Bofoms rife numerous Branches; : 
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from the Bofoms of whofe Leaves again rife 
others; fo that the whole Plant is beautifully 
bufhy. | 
Oétob. 
Brig, 1. 
This is a moft elegant, as well as numerous 
Genus; and fa, Africa and America offer us 
daily new Beauties from its various Species. 
This we here propofe has been known many 
Years in the neighbouring Kingdoms, and to fome 
in England, but itis not fo univerfal as it deferves. 
The Colour of the Flowers, which is a deep 
velvety blue purple, has obtained it the Englifh 
Name of Violet Campanula. ; 
ComMELINE Calls it Campanula Africana annua 
hirfuta, latis ferratifque foliis, flore magno violaceo. 
Linn aus, Campanula foliis lanceolatis. dentatis his 
pedis pedunculis longifimis capfulis ftrigofis: Cam- 
panula with rough, indented, and fpear-pointed 
Leaves, and with very long Foot-ftalks to the 
Flowers, and flender Seed Veflels. A Name 
comprehending almoft a Defcription. 
It.is an annual fibrous-rooted Plant. The 
Stalk is rounded, tolerably firm, purplith near 
the Ground, of a paler green upwards, and a 
little hairy. 
The Leaves are of a very handfome Shape 
and Colour. They have no Foot-ftalks:; they 
are long, narrow, fharp-pointed, indented at the 
Edges, and of a lively green. | 
Numb. IX. 
All the leffer Branches terminate in long, fleii- 
der, naked Twigs, which are as Foot-ftalks to 
-the Flowers; and fome rife of an equal Length © 
with the others, from the upper Leaves on the 
main Stalks. 7 
At the Sumniit of each ftands one Flower, 
very confpicuous in Size, Shape and Colour. It 
is fo large, that the tender Foot-ftalk ufually 
bends witit it; and it is, though of the proper bell- 
like Form, deeply divided into five Segments. Its 
Colour is that of the Violet. — | 
This Flower is placed in a fmall hairy Cup, 
divided into five Parts, and fituated upon the 
Rudiment of the Seed-Veffel, which afterwards 
becomes longifh, and has three Holes at the 
Sides for letting out the Seeds, which are nume- 
rous and fmall. 
In the Centre of the Flower is a ¢onfpicuous 
Part, formed of fine little convergent Scales, 
This we have in general informed the Student 
is the Nectarium ; but in this Flower it is very 
remarkable in its Office : for befide fecreting the 
Honey Juice at the Bafe of the Flower, it is the 
Place of Origination of the Filaments. : 
Thefe are five, and they are very minute : 
Cc one 
