CAMPAN'ULA CaESPITO'SA. 
TUFTED BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAM PANULACEAE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Austria. 
5 inches. 
Juty, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1819. 
No. J 179. 
The derivation of Campanula has been noticed. 
We have few plants which present us with more 
prominent evidence of the diversity of individuals in 
a single family than occurs in Campanula. Nearly 
two hundred of these are known and described, 
about nine-tenths of them blue ; every one bear- 
ing a permanent specific difference from all others, 
whose difference is truly transmitted from genera- 
tion to generation, whilst, at the same time, the 
whole possess certain permanent characteristics in 
common. He who takes a survey of these, may 
catch a glimpse of the infinite power and wisdom 
employed in the arrangement of these gems of the 
earth. 
Will the reader permit us to point to one tiny 
flower, resembling that now figured, and found on 
almost every road-side bank, hanging out its little 
bells, to remind him of the facts j ust stated. It 
merits a passing thought. 
Campanula caespitosa is certainly distinct from 
pumila, No. 48. Comparison of our engravings will 
show this. It is a hardy and very desirable border 
plant. 
