NAT. ORDER, 
Campanulacece. 
CAMPANULA MACRANTHA. GIANT BELL-FLOWER. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, five cleft. Corolla, five-lobed, or five-cleft at 
the apex, bell-shaped. Stamens, five, free. Filaments, broad 
at the base. Style, covered with hairs. Stigmas, three to five 
filiform. 
Spe. Char. Capsule, three to five valved. Seeds, ovate, flattened. 
Leaves, radical, varying in size. Mowers, pedunculate. 
The calyx is a five-parted perianthium, acute, erect, expanding, 
and superior ; the corolla is a monopetalous, bell-form, impervious at 
the base, half five-cleft, marcescent ; divisions broad, acute, and 
spreading ; the nectary in the bottom of the corolla, composed of five 
valves, acute, converging, and covering the receptacle ; the stamens 
consist of five capillary filaments, very short, inserted on the tips of 
the valvs of the nectary; the anthers are longer than the filaments, 
and compressed ; the pistillum is an angular inferior germ ; the style 
filiform, and longer than the stamens ; the stigma three-parted, oblong, 
and thickish ; divisions revolute ; the pericarpium is a roundish 
angular capsule, three or five-celled, emitting the seeds at .so many 
lateral openings ; the seeds are small and numerous ; the receptacle 
is columnar and adnate. There are various other species cultiva- 
ted for ornamental and medical purposes. 
Campanula persicifolia. Peach leaved Bell-flower. This has a 
root resembling that of Navew, and eatable ; the stem is very 
straight, eighteen inches or more high, (in gardens wlien cultivated, 
from two to three feet) unbranched, angular, smooth, and also the 
