CAMPANULA FRAGILIS ; var. HIRSUTA. 
(Hairy fragile Bell-flower.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACE^E. 
: 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-cleft, having the 
muses usually covered by appendages. Corolla five- 
tied or five-cleft at the apex, usually bell-shaped. 
{mens five, free ; filaments broad at the base and 
:i mbranous. Style covered by fascicles of hairs, ex- 
I)t at the base ; stigmas three to five, filiform. Ova- 
wholly inferior, three to five-celled. Capsule 
iee to five-valved, dehiscing laterally. Seeds usually 
■Jite, flattened, ovoid, and small. 
Of the many lovely plants belonging to the genus Campanula , we hardly 
low one which excels the present variety in beauty. And yet, somehow, it is 
Specific Character.— Plant herbaceous, perennial. 
Stems ascending, diffuse, branched. Radical leaves on 
long petioles, roundish cordate, bluntly crenate-lobed ; 
cauline leaves smaller, ovate and lanceolate. Flowers 
panicled. Calyx with linear-lanceolate lobes, erect, 
about equal to the corolla. Style exserted. Capsule 
ovoid. 
Var. hirsuta . — Plant hispid, and as if it was covered 
with wool.— Don’# Gard. and Botany. 
>t an object in which cultivators generally evince much interest, or which they 
vow to anything like its attainable perfection. 
The specimen which supplied a subject for our drawing was bloomed, in the 
: mmer of 1840, at Messrs. Henderson’s, Pine-Apple Place, where most plants 
‘serving of attention are cultivated with a care which is truly delightful. It 
id by some means got the name of C. Carolina ; an appellation the origin of 
hich we cannot trace. In a greenhouse, however, the plant was covering a pot 
•out eight inches in diameter with its charming blossoms, which were also 
ofusely borne on some branches that were hanging over the sides of the pot. 
In its habit, the plant is very dense and compact, bearing a considerable 
imber of branches, and large flowers, which are more expanded and star-like 
an those of most Campanulas. It is one of the neatest of greenhouse ornaments, 
id, from the soft blue of its pleasing flowers, and the bright green of its foliage, 
tracts most persons'* notice. 
Nothing can be done in the way of developing this beautiful plant’s good 
•operties, or cultivating it advantageously, unless it be put in well-drained and 
>rous earth. De Candolle observes, that it is seldom met with farther north 
an 41° of latitude ; that it occupies the evergreen region of Italy, and even 
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