PLATYCÒDON grandiflorum.
Great Bell-flower.
Linnean Class and Orda-. P E N T A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. C A M P A N U L A C E iE . Brown prodr. 1. p.
B L A T Y C O D O N . Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla apice 5-loba, maxima, in-
fundibuliformis. Stamina b, inter se libera, filamentis basi latioribus. S tig mata
3-5. Capsula 3-5-locularis, apice 3-5-valvis medio septiferis dehis-
cens : loculi (quandò 5 adsunt) lobis calycinis e t staminibus alterni Semina
ovoidea, majora quàm vulgò in ordine, nitida, non anguiosa.
Herb® (ex Asià orientali,) perennes, stepè glaucescentes; foliis alternis
vel sub-oppositis, sessilibus, magnitudine mediocribus, superni minoribus ;
floribus paucis terminalibus, solitariis, pedunculatis. Alph.Decand. monogr.
p. 125.
P . grandìflorum, glabrum ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis argutè ser-
ratis, capsulà 5-loculari.
Platycodon grandiflorum. A lph. Becand. l. c. p . 125.
Wahlenbergia grandiflora. .Schrad. cat. hort. g<ett. ann. 1814.
Campanula grandiflora. Jacg. hort. vind. 3. p . 4. t. 2. Linn. f i l . suppl.
p . 140. Willd. sp. p i. 1. p . 891. Solander in hort. kew. 1. p . 218. Curt,
bot. mag. t. 252. Rmm. et Schult, syst. 5. p . 111. Herb, de l’amat.
fase . 19. t. 112. Spreng, syst. 1. p . 735.
C. gentianoides. Lam. diet. 1. p . 781. ili. t. 2513.
C. urtic® foliis glabra, floribus amplissimis pendulis. Amm. rulli, p . 11.
C. foliis lanceolatis glabris, in®qualiter dentatis, utroque extremo integris,
ramis unifloris terminantibus. Gmel. sib. 3. p. 153.
The whole herh of a dull glaucous green. Root perennial,
thick and fleshy. Stems erect, filiform, flexuose, mostly
simple and single-flowered, but occasionally branched, with
from 3 to 5 or even 7 flowers. Leaves, the primordial ones on
long, slender, footstalks, heart-shaped, nearly orbicular,
and serrate; those of the stem alternate, sessile, occasionally
opposite, and sometimes verticillate, ovate-lanceolate,
acute, sharply and unequally serrated, an inch and a half
long, paler beneath, and elegantly marked with reticulated
veins, the base cuneiform and entire; upper ones more ovate,
and acuminate. Flowers solitary. Peduncles filiform, from 2
to 3 inches long, furnished with 1 or 2 lanceolate, leafy
bractes. Calyx turbinate, rather depressed, smooth, glaucous,
besprinkled with minute crystalline bodies; segments
ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire and slightly revolute at the
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