CAMPANULA SYLVATICA. 
(Wood Bell-flower.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, 
CAMPANULACEJE. 
Generic Character.— Calyx five-cleft, having the 
sinuses usually covered by appendages. Corolla five- 
lobed or five-cleft at the apex, usually bell-shaped. 
Stamens five, free ; filaments broad at the base, and 
membranous. Styles covered by fascicles of hairs, 
except at the base ; stigmas three to five, filiform. 
Ovarium wholly inferior, three to five-celled. Capsule 
three to five-valved, dehiscing laterally. Seeds usually 
ovate, flattened, sometimes ovoid, and small, — Don's 
Gardening and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an annual, scabrous 
from short stiff hairs. Stem erect, straight, few- 
flowered. Radical leaves oblong, obovate, tapering 
downwards. Cauline leaves linear, narrow, nearly 
entire. Flowers terminal, on long peduncles, erect. 
Ca^#-segments erect, subulate. Corolla campanulate, 
downy, twice the length of the calycine segments, 
blue. 
Synonyme3.— C. stricta ; C. integerrima. 
Everybody knows the Campanula rotundifolia, or common Hare-bell, with 
its elegant drooping violet-blue blossoms, the loveliness of which has been the 
burden of the poe^s song, not only in England, but in most of those continental 
countries which number it amongst their wild flowers. With that species the 
interesting little plant, faithfully reflected on the annexed sheet, possesses many 
marks in common, and is well entitled to occupy a place in the good opinion of 
cultivators. 
In the size of the plant, and the general proportion which the florescence bears 
to other organs, as well as in the diminishing breadth of the foliage, from the base 
of the stem upwards, it approaches the character of the popular favourite, though 
by no means so narrowly as to admit a chance of mistake, even when destitute of 
blossoms. The latter, however, are most markedly distinct from those of its 
congener; they expand more widely, are supported in an erect position, and 
instead of a porcelain hue, are of a brilliant light ccerulean blue. 
| We owe our first acquaintance with it to specimens which flowered in the 
gardens of ■ — — Allcard, Esq., at Stratford Green, Essex, and from these we were 
kindly permitted to prepare the figure. It was grown there as a border plant, in 
extensive masses, and was in full bloom in the month of June. 
It is a native of Nepal, where it inhabits moist and somewhat shaded places. 
On account of its erect habit it was first named C. striata by Dr. Wallich ; but 
