CAMPAN ULA GRANDIFLO'RA. 
GREAT-FLOWERED BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDIUA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
campanulacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
1 foot. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1782. 
No. 516. 
Of the Campanulas we have figured several, and 
there are but few in the genus undeserving specific 
notice. They vary exceedingly in their stature and 
their flowers, some of them classing amongst the 
minute alpines, being an inch or two high, and their 
little bells not the eighth of an inch diameter ; whilst 
others rise to man’s stature, decorated with flowers 
of corresponding importance. 
This genus, also, has been subjected to division. 
By the German botanist, Schrader, our present plant 
was divided from Campanula, and included in the 
new genus Wahlenbergia. This change has been 
abandoned by most authors. According to a new 
arrangement, by Alphonso De Candolle, depending 
on the dehiscence or opening of the capsules, the lobes 
or clefts of the corolla, and other small variations. 
Campanula now forms several genera, and our plant 
is the Platycodon grandiflorum of such arrange- 
ment. We think it requisite to explain these chan- 
ges to prevent mistakes. 
This plant should be kept with care, in a rather 
cool situation, in peat and loam, as it increases but 
slowly at the root, and yields very few seeds. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 3, 737. 
