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CAMPANULA Lceflingii. 
Lcefling’s Bellflower. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA . 
Nat.ord. Campanulaceae. 
CAMPANULA. Botanical Register , vol. 3. fol. 237. 
C. Lceflingii ; caule ramosissimo multifloro angulis scabriusculo, foliis crenu- 
latis inferioribus ovatis reniformibus v. rotundo-cordatis, superioribus 
ovatis amplexicaulibus, calycis glabri tubo obconico, lobis longe acumi- 
natis patulis corolla subbrevioribus, capsula obconica nervis eminenti- 
bus. Alph. DeCand. Monogr. Camp. p. 335. Brotero Phyt. Lusit. 
p. 41. f. 18. 
C. Broussonetiana. Rdmer Schultes syst. veg. 5. p. 104. 
A beautiful little annual, found wild in sandy places all 
over Portugal, also near Madrid, and in the country round 
Mogador. M. Alphonse DeCandolle observes that it has 
the habit of C. patula, but differs in being more branchy, 
in having broader and less acute leaves, in its annual root 
and deeply furrowed capsule. The latter is indeed remark- 
able ; fig. 1. represents a transverse section of it; the three 
carpels of which it is composed adhere only by the middle, 
a circumstance by no means common among plants with an 
inferior ovary, unless in the Umbelliferous order. 
The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of 
the Horticultural Society in July last. 
A pretty little half-hardy plant, growing from six to 
nine inches high, and requiring a light rich sandy soil. The 
seeds should be sown either in the month of August or 
March, and treated in the same way as Rhodanthe Manglesii, 
or similar half-hardy annuals. If sown in the autumn it 
should be potted singly, and kept in small pots placed in a 
dry situation free from frost during the winter — when sown 
in the spring they may be kept in a cold frame, but where 
