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ture, or still more to those of Linaria Cyrnbalaria, rarely above } inch 
across, alternate, but the 2 uppermost ones or bracts (which are 
narrow, hastate or sub-rhomboidal) often opposite. Corolla f inch 
long, much longer than broad, bright delicate blue. Capsule very 
small, globular, scarcely the half of it free. Plant pale-green, 
glabrous. 
Ivy-leaved Bell-Jlower. 
German, Ephmblattrige Wahlenbergie. 
This beautiful delicate little plant is as attractive as any of its predecessors, — not 
so much on account of its blossom as from the graceful manner of its growth, forming 
festoons of ivy-leaved wreaths around rocks, or trees, or any other object near which it 
is placed. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
CAMPANULA SPECULUM. Linn. 
This plant, the Specularia Speculum (Al. D. C.) of many authors, 
is said to have been sown in cornfields in the undercliff of the Isle 
of Wight by the late Dr. Bromfield : I am not aware if it still 
maintains its ground there. 
ORDER, XLIIL— ERICACEAE. 
Shrubs or small trees, very rarely herbs, with alternate or oppo- 
site or verticillate often evergreen leaves, without stipules : rarely 
leailess, and with fleshy scales. Plowers perfect, regular or nearly 
so, usually red, pink, purple, yellow or white, axillary or terminal, 
solitary or aggregated. Calyx regular, with 4 or 5 segments, gene- 
rally free from the ovary, more rarely furnished with a tube which 
adheres to the ovary. Corolla regular, often sub-globular or ovoid, 
monopetalous with 4 or 5 lobes, more rarely of 4 or 5 distinct 
petals, inserted on the torus (hypogynous) when the ovary is 
superior, or at the summit of the calyx-tube when it is inferior. 
Stamens 8 or 10, rarely 4 or 5 (in the latter case alternate with 
the lobes of the corolla), inserted on the torus within the corolla ; 
filaments not adhering to the lobes of the corolla, free, or rarely 
united towards the base ; anthers 2-celled, free, almost always 
opening at the top by 2 pores, in one genus splitting transversely. 
