NAT. ORDER. 
Campan ulaceoe. 
CAMPANULA GRANDIFLORA. GREAT BELL-FLOWER. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen, Char. Calyx, mostly five-cleft. Corolla, campanulate, five- 
cleft. Filaments, dilated at the base. Stigma, three to five- 
cleft. Capsule, three-celled, open by lateral pores. 
Spe. Char, — Glabrous. Leaves, radical, reniform, cordate, crenate ; 
cauline ones linear, entire. Panicle, lax, few-flowered. 
This is a perennial plant ; the stalks are upright, branched, and 
usually rise from two to four feet in height ; the calyx is five-cleft, 
having the sinuses usually covered with appendages ; the corolla is 
five-lobed, or five-cleft at the apex, and bell-shaped ; the stamens are 
five, free ; the filaments are broad at the base, and membranous ; the 
style is covered by fascicles of hairs, except at the base ; stigmas 
three to five, filiform; ovarium wholly inferior, three to five-cellhd; 
capside three to five-valved, dehiscing laterally ; seeds usually ovate 
flattened, sometimes ovoid and small ; the radical leaves are different 
in form from the cauline ones, especially in size ; the flowers, for the 
most part, are pedunculate, usually racemose, rarely spicate or glom- 
erate, blue or white. 
All the species of this plant are inhabitants of the northern 
hemisphere. The names Trachelium and Cervicaria, are the oldest 
names used for this genus, which were given to it on account of its 
supposed efficacy in the cure of disorders of the neck and trachea : 
hence it has the name of Halskraut, or Halswort, in German ; Hal- 
surt in Danish ; and Tliroatwort in English ; and some species have 
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