CAMPAN ULA ALPPNA. 
ALPINE BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACE^. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height, 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Switzerld. 
6 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1779. 
No. 910. 
The derivation and the meaning of the name of 
the genus now before us will, we trust, not be for- 
gotten by our readers. The names of plants so 
frequently lead to a knowledge of some prominent 
character, or peculiarity, belonging to them, that 
it appears indispensable that they should be under- 
stood as soon as heard. If the plant be unknown 
its name alone may, perchance, give some indication 
of its character. 
A property of all species of Campanula, not 
observed by every one, is their containing a milky 
fluid. This was known to the old herbalists, for 
Parkinson, in noticing the very plant under consi- 
deration, says ^‘The whole plant hath a soft doune, 
somewhat whitish upon it, and giveth milke, as all 
the rest doe.” 
This plant is mentioned by Mr. Curtis as one of 
the introductions, from Austria, to the splendid 
establishment of the Messrs. Loddiges. It requires 
to have a dry situation, hence a place on raised 
rock-work is favourable to its growth. If potted, 
for keeping with alpines, the proper compost for it 
is loam and peat. 
