PHYTEU'MA PULCHEL'LUM. 
PRETTY PHYTEUMA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order, 
CAMPANULACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Russia. 
4 feet. 
1 July. 
Perennial. 
in 1836. 
No. 728. 
The Greek word phuteuo, to sow, is believed to 
be the root of our present name Phyteuma. It 
probably was used by the Greeks to distinguish a 
plant which dispersed its seeds abundantly, and 
hence would be said to sow them. With this novelty 
we were oblit:ingly supplied from the Birmingham 
Horticultural Garden, where it was raised in 1836, 
and again in 1838, as we are informed by Mr. 
Cameron ; who also observes that it seems to be but 
of biennial duration. It is not very showy in a 
single branch, but when in a mass, and growing 
four feet high, its numerous spikes, abundantly 
flowered, assume an attractive character. 
This genus departs considerably from the usual 
appearance of Campanulaceae, its flowers being in 
no degree campanulate or bell-shaped ; indeed the 
segments of the corolla being so deeply divided, it 
would at first sight be scarcely recognized as mon- 
apetalous. One species of Phyteuma is still more 
anomalous — the Phyteuma comosum, the segments 
of the corolla of which always cohere at the apex. 
Phyteuma pulchellum is perfectly hardy, and 
may be grown on any common soil. 
