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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
Looking Glass; and indeed it very much resembles C. speculum. The bud is curiously shaped, and distinctly 
5-cornered, but when the flower expands, it is large, regularly-formed, and handsome. C. pentagonia is a native 
of the Levant about Aleppo, and also of Greece. It was first cultivated in England by Ray, in 1680. It is 
quite hardy, and the seeds, which may be procured in any seed-shop, only require sowing in the open border. 
It has a very good effect sown in masses, or patches ; or it may be trained, by tying the stems to a slight wooden 
frame. 
o.—CAMPANULA DICHOTOMA, Lin. THE FORKED-BIIANCHED BELL-FLOWER. 
Synonymes. —C. mollis var., IVilld.; C. Afra, Cav. ; C. decipiens, 
Ram. et Schultes. 
Engravings _Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 280 ; and our fig. 2, in 
Plate 30. 
Specific Character —Plant clothed with stiff hairs. Stem erect 
with dichotomous branches. Cauline leaves ovate, acute, a little 
crenated. Flowers sessile in the forks of the branches. Calycine lobes 
long, subulate, one-half shorter than the corolla. Appendages of the 
sinuses of the calyx subulate, one half shorter than the lobes.— 
(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—A rather curious plant, with an angular stem from six inches to a foot high, much 
branched ; and the branches angular, spreading, hairy, and forked at the ends, which terminate in flowers. The 
flowers are dark blue ; and, springing from the forks of the branches, they have a very singular appearance. This 
species, which is a native of the shores of the Mediterranean, was introduced about 1820. The seeds, which may 
be procured at Charlwood’s, and other seed-shops, should be sown in the open border in light rich soil, in March 
or April; and the plants if too thick may be transplanted in May. They will not need any other care; but if 
it be thought advisable, they may be trained by tying the branches to a light wooden frame, so as to display the 
flowers. 
OTHER SPECIES OF CAMPANULA. 
The following species are marked as annuals in Don’s Miller , but we do not know where seeds of them are 
to be procured. 
C. LINGULATA, Waldst et Kit. 
Root branched. Stems many from the same root. Leaves tongue-shaped. Flowers in dense terminal 
heaps. A native of Hungary; introduced in 1804. 
C. DRABASFOLIA, Sibth. et Smith. 
The flowers are white, tipped with blue or violet-colour. The plant is of very low growth ; it is a native 
of Greece, and was introduced in 1823. 
C. HERMINII, Hoff. 
A native of Portugal ; introduced in 1823. The root is rather thick ; the stem is upright and panicled at 
top ; and the flowers are pale blue. 
C. RAMOSISSIMA, Sibth. et Smith. 
Very nearly allied to C. Loreyi. A native of Greece; introduced in 1820. 
C. LOEFLINGII, Brot. 
Flowers solitary, terminating the naked branchlets, loosely panicled, drooping. Corolla funnel-shaped, blue 
or violaceous, with a deeper coloured zone beneath the middle, white at the base, both inside and outside. A 
native of Portugal, in sandy places ; introduced in 1818. 
