CAMPANULACEiE. 



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simple, covered with collecting hairs. Leaves simple or deeply 

 divided. — Herbaceous plants or undershrubs, yielding a milky 

 acrid juice; principally natives of the Northern Hemisphere and 

 the Cape. 



CAMPANULA. (Bell-flower.) 



Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogytiia.) Corolla bell-shaped, 

 closed at the bottom with staminiferous valves ; stigma from 

 three to five-cleft ; capsules inferior, opening by lateral pores. 



IVom campana, a bell, on account of the form of the 

 flower. This well-known genus has many species for the 

 garden, which need not here be enumerated, except a few, 

 which, though hardy, are from their beauty introduced into 

 the greenhouse, particularly C. pyramidalis, that stately spe- 

 cies, from Carniola, with its tall spikes of pale blue flowers, 

 which continue in great beauty many months, and there is 

 a beautiful white variety ; these are generally trained to a 

 fan-like frame. C. (Plalycodon) grandiflorum is the great- 

 flowered Campanula, from Siberia. C. coronata is particu- 

 larly beautiful, having white bells, with the calyx green 

 tipped with white. C.fragilis, aurea, garganica, Vidalii, 

 and Barrlieri are lovely species, and require the greenhouse 

 shelter entirely, as well as saxatilis, mollis, per egrina, spathu- 

 lata, and Ottomana. These plants require a good garden 

 soil, and the pots changed as the roots increase in size* 



