CAMPANULA LACTIFLO'RA. 
MILK-COLOURED BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDR1A. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACE 1R. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
3 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1814. 
No. 200. 
The Latin word Campanula, a bell, has very ap- 
propriately given a name to this extensive family of 
plants. Lactiflora, or Lacticolor, from the Latin, 
expressive of its milky coloured flowers. 
This is a handsome and free flowering Campanula; 
more slender and elegant in growth than most others 
of the same genus. It requires no peculiar atten- 
tion, and the roots will admit of separation, for in- 
crease, at the usual season. 
The medicinal virtues of Campanula are rarely 
noticed by modern writers ; one short extract, how- 
ever, from the Theatrum Botanicum of John Par- 
kinson, a no less personage than King’s Herbalist 
to Charles I. may be admissible : with fashion’s kind 
patronage it may banish from the toilets of our fair 
readers all traces of the Lotions and the Kalydors of 
the Gowlands and Rowlands, and other Cosmetica- 
rians of present newspaper celebrity. “ The rootes 
beaten small, and mixed with some meale of Lupines, 
clenseth the skinne from spots, markes, or other dis- 
colourings. The distilled water of the whole plants, 
rootes and all, performeth the same, and maketh the 
face very splendent and cleare.” 
Bot. Reg. 241. 
