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P L A T E CCCLXXXV.
CAMPANULA LACINIATA
Ragìxort-leaved Bell Flower.
C L A S S OR D E R I.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIJl. Five Chives. One Pointai.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
COROLLA campanulata, fuiido clauso valvis staminiferis.
Stigma 3-fidum. Capsula infera,
poris lateralibus dehiscens.
C O R O L L A bell-sbaped witli the mouth closed
by staminiferous valves. Summit 3-cleft.
Capsule beneatli, gaping with lateral pores.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
CAMPANULA , capsulis obtectis pedimculatis,
foliis serratis ; radicalibus lyratis ; caulinis
lanceolatis.
B E L L FLOWER, with pedunculated covered
capsules, and serrated leaves; the root ones
lyrated ; tlie stem ones spear-shaped.
CAMPANULA laciniata. Willd. Sp. PL I . 911.
CAMPANULA Grajca, saxatilis, Jacobeae foliis. Tourn. Voyage 1. 201. cum icone. Corali Inst Rei
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D E S C R I P T I O . Herba undique villosa. RadLz biennis. Folia radicalia lyrato-pinnatifida, pinnulis incisis ;
caulina alterna, sublanceolata, inciso-serrata. Pedunculi bracteis subovatis dentatis instructi. Fhres
numerosi caerulei.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. The blossom laid open.
3. The seed-bud, chives and pointai.
4. A chive magnified.
5. The seed-bud and pointai, the summit magnified.
THE Campanula laciniata, although introduced into the British gardens so long since as the year 17go,
is still a very scarce species : this is not owing to a want of beauty, but to its having a biennial root,
and not perfecting its seeds well, except in favourable situations. It was originally discovered by the
celebrated French traveller and botanist Tournefort, about a century since, on a remarkable rock in the
Island of Sikino in Greece:; where he appears to have been highly delighted with its beauty and appearance,
and says it is " the fairest Campanula in all Greece'K" However applicable this encomium
may have been in those days, it ceases to be so now; for, without detracting from the fairness and
beauty of the present .plant, we have in cultivation another Grecian Campanula, still more fair and
beautifiil.and much more rare, which we hope soon to have the pleasure of presenting to our subscribers.
The Ragwort-leaved Campanula is usually treated as an alpine plant, and wintered in a frame : it is
increased by seeds, and is impatient of superfluous moisture.
* Tournefort's Voyage, vol.i. page 20L
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