CAMPANULA CARPA'TICA. 
CARPATHIAN BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACEA5. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Carp. Alps. 
9 inches. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1774. 
No. 130. 
This genus of plants has been named from the 
shape of its monopetalous corolla. A bell, campana 
in the Latin language, presents a tolerably correct 
idea of the flower of most of the species, but the 
present one departs considerably from that confor- 
mation ; for not only is its shape rather different, but 
unlike most of the same family, its flowers have not 
the bell-like pendulous position ; still its family con- 
nexion is sufficiently marked, and a first glance de- 
clares its alliance. Its long succession of flowers 
renders it very desirable ; and though they are not 
of so specious a character as some others of the same 
tribe, their numbers make them attractive. 
The term, Carpatica, has been used to distinguish 
this species, from its being a native of the Carpathian 
Alps ; a magnificent chain of mountains, bounding 
the one side of Hungary, and extending a circuit of 
about 500 miles. 
It is readily propagated, by parting its roots, in 
autumn or spring ; but the latter season is preferable. 
Where there is a choice of situation, a cool one, that 
is rather dry, should be adopted ; though it will 
flourish in any common garden soil. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 345. 
