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C A M P A N U L A persicifolia.
Peach-leaved Bell-flower.
P E N T A N D R IA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Corolla campanulate or subrotate, with
5 broad and shallow segments. Filaments dilated
at the base. Stigma 2—5-fid. Caps. 2—5-celled,
bursting laterally, rarely at the extremity.
Spec. Char. Glabrous. Stem rounded, few-flowered.
Root-leaves oblong or obovate, stalked, crenate ;
those of the stem linear-lanceolate, subsessile.
Calycine segments entire. Corollas spreading.
Syn. Campanula persicifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 232.
Don, Herb. Brit. 180. Hook. FI. Scot. 74. Sm.
Engl. FI. v. 1. 290. Hook. Brit. FI. ed. 2. 114.
JAl OT having an opportunity of seeing a recent native
specimen of Campanula persicifolia, we have made our drawing
from that published by Mr. Don, in his Fasciculi of dried
plants, as gathered in woods near Cullen in Scotland, the
only authority indeed for its being indigenous. In gardens
it is extremely common, often varying with white and often
with double flowers.
Root somewhat creeping, about the thickness of a crow’s
or a raven’s quill. Stem generally simple, erect, 1—2 feet
high, glabrous, as is every part of the plant, rounded, distantly
leafy. Leaves slightly serrated : those from the
root more crowded, but soon withering, oblong or even
obovate, gradually tapering into a petiole: those of the
stem lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, sessile, smaller upwards.
Flowers solitary, erect, and terminal, or sometimes