CAMPAN ULA EXCISA. 
(TUT BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACEAL. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Switzerland 
5 inches. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1820. 
No. 490. 
Campana a bell, hence bell-flower. The specific 
term excisa, meaning an excision, is applied to this 
plant, in allusion to its cut corolla. 
This most extensive genus contains a multitude 
of beautiful plants, some of which Britain may call 
peculiarly her own. The English road-side banks, 
through many of the midland counties, owe more 
of their summer beauty to one of its species, than 
to any other flower; we mean the Campanula ro- 
tundifolia, and occasionally, the Campanula patu- 
la, both of them brilliant ornaments. The British 
botanist cannot help recognising the former of these 
as a faithful travelling companion. Those individ- 
uals whose eyes happen to have been formed of such 
focus as never to see society of this class, am little 
aware of the pleasures they lose. 
The Campanula excisa is a beautiful little species, 
producing an abundance of its elegant flowers. It 
is well suited to the foreground of the parterre, and 
to artificial rock- work. It may also be advanta- 
geously grown in pots with other alpines. The 
soil should be sandy loam; and the aspect south- 
erly, or varying from that towards the east. 
Don’s Syst. Bot.v. 3, 760. 
