about half the length of the filaments, composed of two narrow
parallel cells, which open lengthways^. Style twice as
long as the corolla, attenuated, and very slender towards the
base, where it is inserted into the centre of the elevated
pentagonal, glandular, orange disk ; thickened, and somewhat
davate upwards. composed of three oblong
blunt revolute obes which, together with the upper half &
the style, are clothed with minute, glandular papillæ Cav-
somewhat globular with prominent ribs, composed of
three cells, with three lamellar placentæ, alternating with
°P®«i«gat the base by three holes.
Seeds fiat, oblong slightly concave on one side, of an orange
colour, with a pale yellow prominent raphe.
banks species, native of meadows, on the
banks of the River Dovolgm, and near the village of Aro-un
in Eastern Tartary. It was first noticed by Messerschmid’
and a ÿ scn p tion and figure of it is given by Pallas, in the
iteLLd S L introduced by MMr .' TAntde-r son, of the Chelsea Botbaunti craelc eGnatrl-j
den from seeds communicated by Dr. Fischer; it fiowered
for the first time in July last, in the abovementioned g a î
den, where our drawing was taken.
The fiowers, in the cultivated specimen, are larger, and
less often disposed in whorls than in the wild one
The very natural group to which this species belongs
was first separated from Campanula by Dr. Fischer, and the
genus has been adopted by M. Alphonse De Candolle in
these authorities, the -propriety of c oV sidE e In g 'ir a r r sZ f
rate genus may well i be ^questioned,uc^ueueu, since it is only distin-distin
tmguished from Campanula y iT in 'y ia iln by Vi-rr the elevated 2 . 1 glandular i 1 . disk
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into which the style is inserted.
The plant succeeds well in the open border in a soil
composed of sandy peat and loam, and is readily increased
by seeds, or by parting the root. D . Don Mss.
the p1 Ar®es egne nt eser ri cie ns.a m e w i l l b e fo u n d e x p l a i n e d a t f o l a10v8o , o f
1. Calyx, 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil.
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