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time, however, it was discovered that it succeeded much better when treated as a greenhouse perennial, as when 
grown in the open border it would never flower well unless the weather was warm and dry, being easily injured 
by wet and very apt to damp off. This plant varies very much, and the flowers are of every shade of blue and 
lustrous lilac, with considerable divei’sity in the size and shape of the flower heads. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. 
CAMPANULACE^ A. Dec. 
Essential Character. — Calyx superior, usually five-loted, per- 
sistent. Corolla monopetalous, regular, permanent, usually five-lobed, 
inserted in the top of the calyx. Stamens five, inserted in the calyx 
alternately with the lobes of the corolla. Anthers two-celled, distinct. 
Ovary inferior, with two or more polyspcrmous cells. Style simple. 
covered with collecting hairs. Stigma naked, simple, or with as many 
lohes as there are cells. Fruit dry, crowned by the withered calyx and 
corolla, always loculicidal. Seeds numerous, attached to a placenta 
in the axis. 
Description, &c. — The plants belonging to this order are all either herbaceous or sufffuticose, and they all 
aboimd with a somewhat acrid milky juice. The flowers are ornamental, but .nine-tenths of them are blue. The 
order was formerly combined with Lobeliacem, but the two orders differ in their botanical construction, particularly 
in the veiy short filaments of the stamens of the Campanulacem, and in the style behig furnished with collecting 
hairs, which appear intended to clear out the pollen from the cells of the anthers. These collecting hairs appear 
much longer when the flower is in the bud or just opened than they do afterwards when it has been long expanded, 
and as they finally disappear, it was supposed that they were deciduous, but it is now found they possess a curious 
retractile power like the tentacula, or horns of the snail, and that when they have perfonned their office of 
collecting the pollen, they are gradually drawn back into certain cavities lying at their base. Most of the genera 
included in this order contain only hardy plants. 
If 
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GENUS I. 
CANA RINA Juss. THE CANARINA. 
Lin. Syst. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx and corolla six-lobed. Stamens six. Stigmas six. Cells of the. fruit opposite the stamens and calycine 
segments. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — 'There are only two species in this genus, and one of them is a stove-plant. The 
greenhouse Canarina was formerly included in the genus Cmipamila, and when it was separated on account of 
the difference in the number of stamens and some other particulars, the new genus was called Canarina, 
from this plant being a native of the Canaiy Islands. 
1.— CANARINA CAMPANULATA Lam. THE CAMPANULATB CANARINA. 
Synonymes. — C. liEvigata G. Don ; Campanula canariensis Lin. Stems ascending. Leaves hastately subcordate, irregularly toothed. 
Engravings. — Dot. Mag., t. 444 ; Lodd. Bot. C.ab., t. 376. Flowers solitary, terminating axillary branchlets. ((?. Don.) 
Specific Character. — Plant glaucescent. Root tuberous, fusiform. 
Description, &c. — A large herbaceous plant with thick fleshy roots, and drooping ornamental flowers, which 
