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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES OF CAMPANULA, 

 By Col. R. H. Beddome, F.L.S. 



The genus Campanula is a very fascinating one : many of the species are 

 very beautiful, nearly all are hardy, and most of them easily grown. Every 

 gardener gives more or less attention to them, and I am sure many must 

 have felt the want of a good catalogue of the species and their synonymy. 

 The genus has never been taken up specially since the publication of 

 De Candolle's monograph in 1830 : this is now quite out of date. Nursery- 

 men's catalogues, owing to the existence of numerous synonyms, are often 

 very puzzling, so that amateurs wishing to form a good collection are 

 often frustrated, and buy the same plant again and again under different 

 names. Having made this genus a speciality in my garden for some years, 

 and having lately studied it botanically in the herbarium and the library 

 at Kew, and at the Natural History Museum, I have endeavoured to draw 

 up an alphabetical list of all the species I have come across, either growing 

 or dried, together with their synonyms. It is not of course anything like a 

 complete list of all the species, as I have not included any species that I 

 have not seen and studied myself ; but it probably includes all the species 

 that have ever been introduced into cultivation, besides some that have 

 not yet found their way into this country in a living state. I trust this 

 list may prove useful to amateurs and others, and I hope also that it may 

 lead to the introduction or reintroduction of some of the desirable species 

 not now apparently in cultivation. Of these I may specially mention the 

 following : — 



pilosa, lasiocarpa, and uniflora from North America, scutellata 



from Thessaly, Aucheri, ardonensis, and hypopolia from the Caucasus, 

 Stricta and macrochlamys from Erzeroom. 



I may call attention to the following as valuable new species or quite 

 recent introductions, as yet only to be seen in a few gardens, but certain to 

 be shortly in distribution : — 



imeritina Caucasus. 



incupva (Leutweinii) 

 kolenatiana> 

 long-estyla > 

 phyctidocalyx . 

 Raddeana . 

 rupestris 

 Steveni 



Thessaly. 

 Caucasus. 



Armenia. 

 Caucasus. 

 Greece. 

 Caucasus. 



The genus does not lend itself kindly to hybridisation ; some of the 

 species, however, sport very much from seed, as anyone can prove by sow- 

 ing rotundifolia, linifolia, caespitosa, and the different varieties of 

 cappatica &c. Many of the supposed hybrids are probably sports, but 

 there are undoubtedly some hybrids— I may mention one, of which there 

 can be no doubt, and which can be seen in the herbarium at Kew. It 



