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W. TENUIFOLIA, Alph. Dec. 
This is probably only a variety of the preceding species, as it only diflfers in the flowers being violet, and the 
stems purplish. 
W. HEDERACEA, Alph. Dec. 
A British plant, with bine flowers, well known under the name of the Ivy-leaved Campanula. 
W. CAPILLACEA, Alph. Deo. 
A dwarf plant, with very slender stems and white flowers, the native country of which is not known, but 
whicli was first seen in British gardens about 1822. It is quite hardy, and it flowers from May till August. 
W. REPENS, G. Don. 
A very pretty little creeping plant, with white flowers. It is a native of the Canary Islands, whence it was 
introduced in 1830. The root leaves grow in close tufts, sending up scapes with single flowers, which are 
produced in great abundance from May till October. It is quite hardy, and admirably adapted for rock- work. 
It requires very little care in its culture, as it is not easily killed, except by too much moisture ; and it is 
propagated by dividing the root. 
GENUS X. 
CAMPANULA, Fuchs. THE CAMPANULA, OR BELL-FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Oeneric Ghaiucter. — Calyx five-cleft, with the sinuses usually 
covered by appendages. Corolla five-lobcd or five-cleft at the apex ; 
bell-shaped. Stamens five, with membranous filaments, which are 
broad at the base. Style covered with tufts of short stiff hair. Stig- 
mas very slender; three or five. Ovary entirely inclosed In the tube 
of the calyx ; three or five-celled. Capsule opening on the side, near 
the base, by small locolicidal valves. Seeds usually ovate and 
flattened, sometimes very small. 
Description, &c. — This is a very extensive genus, comprising more than a hundred species, which have 
been divided into two sections ; namely, those which have the openings in the calyx furnished with appendages, 
and those which have not. The plants in the first section, which is called medium, from the specific name of 
the Canterbury Bell, have their capsules opening always at the base, where the covering is thinnest, by little 
valves, which appear to have been accidentally torn in the middle of each cell. The plants in the second section, 
which is called Eucodon, from two Greek words signifying a true bell, have their capsules three-celled, and 
opening by side valves, which are sometimes at the base and sometimes at the apex. 
SECTION 1.— MEDIUM. 
Sinuses of the calyx covered by reflexed appendages. Capsule three or five-celled, opening by valves at the base, 
§• 1. — Capsule five-celled. Stigmas five. Stems many fiowered. Radicle leaves with long petioles. 
appendages, very much reflexed but one half shorter than the lobes ; 
corolla campanulate, inflated. 
1.— CAMPANULA MEDIA, Lin. THE CANTERBURY BELL 
EsoRATiNO. — Onr^^. 1, in Plate 63. 
Specific Character. — Stem erect ; leaves sessile, ovate Lanceo- 
late ; crenately-toothed ; calycine lobes ovate, acuminate, witli large 
Description, &c. — This well-known and very handsome flower is, as is well known, a biennial, requiring 
to be sown one year and flowering the next. It is quite hardy, and will grow in any common garden soil to 
the height of from one to four feet. The stem is branched ; the whole plant is hairy. The flowers are numerous, 
large, and disposed in racemes ; their colour varies from blue to purple and white, and they are sometimes double 
