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CAMPANULA aurea. @. 
Broad-leaved golden Bell-flower.. 
PENTANDRIA MONOG YNIA. 
CAMPANULA. Supra fol. 56. 
C. aurea, capsulis quinquelocularibus, foliis ellipticis serratis glabris, 
flonbus subpaniculatis quinquepartitis, caulibus fruticosis carnosis. 
Hort. Kew. 1. 223. by 
Campanula aurea, Linn. suppl. 141. Willd. sp. pl. 1.912. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 1. 351. ; 
(a) latifolia. 
Campanula aurea. Venten. malmais. 116. 
(8) angustifolia. ba 
Campanula aurea, Jacq. hort. schanb. 4. t. 472. 
Suffruticosa, sempervirens, lactescens. Caudex pedalis & altior, teres, 
crassus, carnosus, nunc tumidus, cicatrizatus, divisus, in summitate Soliosus. 
Folia firmula, sparsa, approximata, patentia, elliptico v. oblongo-lanceolata, 
poeditad duplicato-serrata, deorsim longé attenuata, decursive petiolata, 
até virentia, glabra, lucida, Caules florifert, annut, terminales, pyramidato- 
paniculatt, remote foliati, stricti, multiflort, pede breviores, crassitudine 
Jermé penne olorine ; ramuli v. pedunculi azillares, sparsi, divaricati, 1-3 
Hori; pedicelli 1-flori, folio diminuto bracteati, secundo-assurgentes, flore, 
2-3 breviores. Flores tnodori, erecti, ustulato-flavicantes, turbinato-campa= 
nulati, ultra unciam longi. Germ. obversé pyramidatum, decemangulare, 
viridiflavum, glabrum, calyce pariim brevius, 5-loc.; receptacula ovulifera 
5, duplicato-septiformia, angulos columella decurrentia, placentam duplicem 
secundim marginem pariett oppositam gerentia. Cal. perststens, coriaceo- 
vigens, 5-partitus, campanato-connivens, lacinits ovato-lanceolatis, distantibus, 
subincurvis, planis, acutis intis lucidis. Cor. inclusa, pallidior, cylindrico- 
radiata, bast calycis imposita ; infra in brevem cylindrum connata, indé re- 
curvata, consistentid & glabritie feré calycis, sed ex duplo angustior, lacinize 
lineari-lanceolate, cuspidate, foliolis calycis denud intervenientes. Stam. 
corolla bis breviora, basi sertato dilatata & inflexa. _ Stylus columellari-teres ; 
stig. 5, lineari-lobiformia, acuta, dorso convexiuscula et villosa, ad basin usque 
radiato-replicanda, apice in spiram torquenda. : 
A genus familiar, by means of some:species or other, to 
the inhabitants of every part of Europe, but in all instances 
within that boundary only known as a purely herbaceous 
plant. ‘Towards the warmer regions beyond that boundary, 
others appear of the description of undershrubs, with a solid 
woody permanent stem; genuine Bell-flowers, however, in 
all other respects. Of such the island of Madeira has af- 
forded two species now cultivated in our gardens, of which 
the present is one. Its stem seldom exceeds a foot in 
