CAMPANULA GRANDIS. 
(Large 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. Style covered by fascicles of hairs, except 
at the base. Stigmas three to five, filiform. Ovarium 
woolly, inferior, three to five-celled. Capsule three to 
five-valved, dehiscing laterally. Seeds usually ovate, 
flattened, sometimes ovoid, and small.— Bon's Gard. 
and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant an herbaceous perennial, 
growing three or four feet in height. Leaves very long, 
somewhat lanceolate, acuminate, serrated, slightly un- 
dulated, and often recurved towards the extremity. 
Floivers numerous, axillary, almost sessile, rather deep 
blue, very large. Corolla flatly campanulate, segments 
nearly equal, somewhat ovate, acute. 
A finer acquisition to our half-hardy herbaceous plants has not been made for 
some time than the species of Bell-flower, now figured, supplies. It has all the 
beauty of the favourite C. pyramidalis, and is even more showy, on account of 
the larger foliage and the greater dimensions of its flowers. It is peculiar, too, for 
a property which C. pyramidalis hardly possesses, and which renders the present 
plant singularly valuable. We refer to its capacity of blooming abundantly, in 
the smallest state, as we have seen numbers of specimens splendidly in bloom in 
quite small pots, when the height of their flower-stems did not exceed a foot 
or nine inches. 
Of its native country we have no information. It was sent to England from 
St. Petersburgh, with the name here adopted, and has blossomed in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, and in the Epsom, Tooting, and other nurseries. Our 
drawing was taken from Messrs. Rollissons, Tooting, in August last. The habit 
of the plant is particularly strong and robust, and the flowers appear in a long 
terminal spike, like those of C. pyramidalis. They are usually two inches and 
a half across, and sometimes as much as three inches. 
It may either be cultivated in a pot, and kept through the winter, like 
C. pyramidalis, in a cold frame, to be turned out against a wall with a southerly 
aspect in spring ; or it may be constantly grown in a pot, and made to decorate 
the greenhouse, or the windows of a drawing-room, or the recesses in the front of 
