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much, a few plants will be sufficient to cover a small bed, or to fill a vase or basket. It is better suited for the 
latter purposes, or for rockwork, than for growing in the open border ; as from the lowness of its stature the full 
beauty of its flowers cannot be so well perceived on the ground as when they are on a level with the eye, or 
hanging gracefully over the edge of a basket or vase. In every situation, however, it is highly valuable. 
CHAPTER XXX. 
CAMPANULACE7E. 
Essential Character. —Calyx usually 5-lobed. Corolla mono- 
petalous, regular, usually 5-lobed, with a valvate aestivation. Stamens 
usually 5, inserted along with the corolla on the disc of the ovarium, 
and combined with it, but free from the corolla. Anthers contiguous, 
free, rarely combined. Stigma usually divided, with recurved lobes, 
Fruit superior, usually 5-cclled, many-seeded, opening at the sides or 
apex. Albumen fleshy. Milky herbs. Leaves alternate, rarely 
opposite; inflorescence variable. Flowers usually drooping ( G.Don .) 
Description, &c. —The genus Campanula of Linmeus, which gives its name to this order, used formerly to 
comprise nearly all the annual species ; and though it has been divided by modern botanists into several genera, 
we shall still describe the plants it contains by their old names, as being those they are most generally known by, 
giving the new ones among the synonymies. We shall, however, here say a few words on these new genera, and 
shall mention some of the reasons why they have been divided from the old genus. The word campanula , 
which signifies a little bell, refers to the shape of the flowers of the plants which are still retained in the original 
genus; while those with expanded corollas which shine in the sun, like the Venus’s Looking Glass, are placed 
in a new genus called Specularia, from speculum , a mirror. Others that have long, prismatically-formed fruit, 
and erect flowers, like C. Prismatocarpus , are called Prismatocarpus; and others with beautiful star-like flowers 
like C. gracilis , and C. capensis , are now called Wahlenbergia. There are several others, the differences between 
which are not so easily perceptible, making in all thirteen new genera, besides the old genus Campanula. 
GENUS I. 
CAMPANULA, Fuchs. THE CAMPANULA. OR BELL-FLOWER. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped, or broadly tubular. Nectarium none. Capsule 3—5-celled, not elongated. Cells 
when five, opposite the stamens and calycine segments. Herbs variable in habit.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— Many of the most ornamental species of this genus are biennial, or perennial. The 
annual flowers are all quite hardy, and of the easiest culture. Their flowers, though handsome, have, however, 
a degree of sameness in their appearance, as they are nearly all dark blue or purple, with some few varieties 
white. 
1.—CAMPANULA LOREYI, Fold. LOREYI’S CAMPANULA. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 2581 ; Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. 2nd Ser. 
t. 332 ; and our Jig. 5, in Plate 30. 
Synonymes. —C. Baldensis, Ball). ; C. ramossissima, Hurt. 
Variety. —C. L. 2 alba; and ouv fig. 5, in Plate 30. 
Specific Character. —Stem branched, few-flowered. 
sessile, glabrous ; lower ones obovate, crenated ; middle ones ovate- 
lanceolate : superior ones linear, entire. Calyx with a hispid tube, 
and long-acuminated, glabrous, spreading lobes, which are denticulated 
at the base, length of corolla, which is somewhat rotate. Capsule 
spheroid, deeply furrowed, and beset with strigose pili.—(G. Don.) 
Leaves 
Description, &c. —This very pretty species was named by the Italian botanist Pollini, in compliment to 
