CAMPANULA AZU'REA. 
A2UEE BELL-FLOWEK. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANDLACEyE. 
Natire of 
Height. 
Flowers iu 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Switzerld. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1778. 
No. 1049. 
Campanula has been lately noticed, under No. 903. 
It has always been one amongst our chief aims, 
as far as we possessed the power, to clear from the 
path of those who seek botanical knowledge and 
gratification, all asperities and verbal obstractions ; 
as well as to strew that jsath with flowers, and here 
and there, with matters of more serious import. 
Words, very harsh to English ears, sometimes un- 
avoidably occur, but we have always analysed them, 
and given them their meaning, and often wished 
their component parts less rugged. Dr. Lindley 
has tried, and with some degree of success, to give 
many of them an English dress, — but we will ex- 
tract his own words from his late work, “The Veg- 
etable Kingdom”. He says, “No one who has any 
experience in the progress of botany, as a science, 
can doubt that it has been more im24eded in this 
countiT by the repulsive appearance of the names 
which it employs than by any other cause what- 
ever ; and that, in fact, this circumstance has 
proved an invincible obstacle to its becoming'the 
serious occujDation of those who are unacquainted 
with the learned languages, or who, being ac- 
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