CAMPAN ULA TRACHE'LIUM. 
Var. pleno bicolor. 
THROAT-WORT CAMPANULA. 
Double two-coloured. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANPLACE^. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Origin. 
2 feet. 
July &. Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1840. 
No. 886. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is given 
under No. 130. The specific name, Trachelium, or 
Throatwort, has been handed down to us from the 
old herbalists, who employed this Campanula in 
the cure of pain and swelling in the throat. 
In allusion to the virtues of the Campanulas, or 
Bell-flowers, Gerard says the ancients have set 
down nothing ; but of his own experience he states. 
That they are excellent good against the inflam- 
mation of the throat, or uvula, and almonds, and all 
manner of cankers and ulcerations in the mouth, if 
the mouth and throat be gargarized and washed 
with the decoction of them.” 
The original variety of the Campanula trache- 
lium has single blue flowers, and is a native of 
England, and most other parts of Europe. It has 
been very commonly cultivated in gardens, hence 
varieties of it have been produced with white 
flowers, double white, and double blue flowers ; 
and lastly, with two-coloured double flowers, as 
seen in our present plate — a variety that is worthy 
of a place in every good collection of herbaceous 
plants. It requires no peculiar management. 
