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much, a few plants will be sufficient to cover a small bed, or to fill a vase or basket. It is better suited for the 
latter purposes, or for rockwork, than for growing in the open border ; as from the lowness of its stature the full 
beauty of its flowers cannot be so well perceived on the ground as when they are on a level with the eye, or 
hanging gracefully over the edge of a basket or vase. In every situation, however, it is highly valuable. 
CHAPTEE XXX. 
CAMPANULACE^. 
Essential Character. — Calyx usually 5-lobed. Corolla mono, i free, rarely combined. Stigma usually divided, with recurved lobeB, 
petalous, regular, usually S-lobed, with a valvate aestivation. Stamens | Fruit superior, usually 5-ccllcd, many-seeded, opening at the sides or 
usually 5, inserted along with the corolla on the disc of the ovarium, i apex. Albumen fleshy. Milky herbs. Loaves alternate, rarely 
and combined with it, but free from the corolla. Anthers contiguous, i opposite; inflorescence variable. Flowers usuallydrooping (G.Don,) 
Description, &c. — The genus Campanula of Linnaeus, which gives its name to this order, used formerly to 
comprise nearly all the annual species ; and though it has been divided by modem botanists into several genera, 
we shall still describe the plants it contains by their old names, as being those they are most generally known by, 
givincr the new ones among the synonymes. We shall, however, here say a few words on these new genera, and 
shall mention some of the reasons why they have been divided from the old genus. The word campanula, 
which signifies a little bell, refers to the shape of the flowers of the plants which are still retained in the original 
genus ; while those with expanded corollas which shine in the sun, like the Venus's Looking Glass, are placed 
in a new genus called Specularia, from speculum, a mirror. Others that have long, prismatically-formed fruit, 
and erect flowers, like C. Prkmatocarpus, are called Prismatocarpus ; and others with beautiful star-like flowers 
like C. gracilit, and C. capensis, are now called Wahlenbergia. There are several others, the difi^erences between 
which are not so easily perceptible, making in all thirteen new genera, besides the old genus Campanula. 
GENUS I. 
CAMPANULA, Fuchs. THE CAMPANULA, OR BELL-FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gkneric Character. — Corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped, or broadly tubular. Nectarium none. Capsule 3 — 5-celled, not elongated. Cells 
when five, opposite the stamens and calycine segments. Herbs variable in habit. — (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — Many of the most ornamental species of this genus are biennial, or perennial. The 
annual flowers are all quite hardy, and of the easiest culture. Their flowers, though handsome, have, however, 
a degree of sameness in their appearance, as they are nearly all dark blue or purple, with some few varieties 
white. 
1.— CAMPANULA LOREYI, Vohl. LOREY'S CAMPANULA. 
sessile, glabrous ; lower ones obovate, crenated ; middle ones ovate- 
lanceolate : superior ones linear, entire. Calyx with a hispid tube, 
and long-acuminated, glabrous, spreading lobes, which are denticulated 
at the base, length of corolla, which is somewhat rotate. Capsule 
spheroid, deeply furrowed, and beset with strigose pili. — {G. Doth) 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 2581 ; Swt. Brit. Flow. Card. 2nd Ser. 
U 332 ; and omfg. 5, in Plate 30, 
Synonymes. — C. Baidensis, Balb. ; C ramossissinia, Hort. 
Variety. — C. L. 2 alba; and our /Iff, 5, iu Plate 30. 
SpEciFir CuARACTRR. — Stem branched, few-flowered. Leaves 
Description, &c. — This very pretty species was named by the Italian botanist Pollini, in compUment to 
