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CAMPANULA pentagonia. 
Five-angled Bell- ower. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ; , — 
CAMPANULA. (Cor. monopetala, regularis. Anth. libere.) 
Cal. superus 5-(rard 4-) fidus. Cor, campanulata (vy, rotata), 5-fida. 
Filamenta basi dilatatt. Stigma (5-) 3-2-lobum. ‘Cups. (5-) 3-2-locu- 
laris, sepitis infera foramimibus lateralibus aperiens, nunc apice supero 
yalvato (v. foraminibus superis dehiscens), : 
Herba rard Suffrutices, /actescentes. Folia’ alterna, nunc opposita, 
Inflorescentia varia. Flores distincti. Brown. prod. 1, 560. 
Div. Capsula longissima prismatico-cylindrica, foraminibus superis 
dehiscens. et gael wally 
C. pentagonia, ramosa, diffusa; foliis inferioribus oblongis, obtusis,'su- 
perioribus lanceolatis ; floribus solitariis ;.corollis calyce longioribus. 
Desfont. in annales du muséum. 11, 143. t. 18. #3 eg 
‘Campanula pentagonia. Lin. sp. pl. 1.239. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 11. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 352. Willd. sp. pl. 1.914. AQ ys 11} 
Prismatocarpus pentagonius. L’ Herit. sert. angl. 3. — SEES 
Campanula pentagonia flore amplissimo thracica. — Tournef. inst..112. 
C. cretica arvensis, flore maximo. Tournef. cor. inst. 3. 
Speculum Veneris flore amplissimo thracicum. Raii hist. 742. 
Annua, Caulis sesuncialis ad pedalem, ramosus, diffusus, rotundato- 
angulosus, pubescens, Folia alterna, patentia, sessilia, angusta, uncialia et 
longiora, setulis nonnullis vagis albis consita, subtis pilosa 3 inferiora sub- 
spathulato-oblonga, superiora /ineari- oblonga vel lanceo ata. Flores majuscult, 
caeruleo-purpurascentes, caulis et ramorum terminales, solitarit, claus in alas 
5 complicatz, Germina his longiora, pedunculos referentia, triquetra, pilosi 
uscula. Cal, foliaceus, stellatus, angustus, acutus, subsetuloso-ciliatus at laxé, 
corolla subbrevior, neque reflectendus. Cor. unciam profunda, rotata, plana, 
semigquinguefida, laciniis obovato-ellipticis, retusis, mucronatis, villis paucis 
-mucroni.circumpositis, nervo media in dorso setulis 2-3 versus apicem instructo. 
Stamina corolla subduplo breviora, externé pruinata : fil. membranacea, basi 
dilataté sertato-conniventia, ultra tandém recumbentia: anth. bis fermé bre- 
viores. Stigmata 3, post feecundationem supra antheras replicanda. Capsula 
2-3-uncialis, angulis costata, trilocularis, loculis polyspermis. 
The Campanutas, with an elongated prismatic capsule, 
as in the present species, have been repeatedly marked out 
as the stock of a new genus. They were actually formed 
into one by L’Heritier, in his ‘ Sertum anglicum,” by the 
title of Prismarocarpus, and its character developed with 
the sagacity and precision which belonged to that excellent 
botanist. But in every subsequent general system or cata- 
logue of plants, we find that all the species which composed 
