Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

TAB. 6504.
CAMPANULA SBAGILIS.
Native of South Italy.
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACE.2G.•Tribe CAMPANULES.
Genus CAMPANULA, Linn.; (Benin, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 5(>L.)
CAMPANULA (Eucodon) fragilis ; glabra pilosa v. pubescens, caulibus gracilibus
diffusis, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-ovatis v. surnmis ovatis grosse crenato-
dentatis, floribus axillaribus v. apices versus ramorum laxe corvnibosis, lobis
calycinis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis corollam sub•quantibus integris siuubiis
nudis, corolla late explanata ad medium 5-üda, lobis late ovatis acutis, stylo
elongato, st'gmatibus 3.
C. fragilis, Cyrill. Plant, fase. i. p. 32, t. 11, f. 2; Tenore Fl. Nap. t. ll'.i;
A. DC. Monog. Campan, p. 306; Prodr. vol. vii. p. 476; Li ndl. in Bot.
Reg. t. 1738.
C. diffusa, Tahl Symb. p. 18.
C. eocblearifolia, Vahl I• c. p. 18.
C crassifolia, Nees Syll. Ratisb. i. p. 6 ; et Am•n. Bot. fase. 2, p. 9, t. 1.
C. Cavolini, var. a, Tenore Syll. p. 94.
C. Earrelieri, Presl. Symb. Bot. p. 30, t. 19.
C. saxatilis rotundifolia, &c, Barr. PL Obs. p. 10, t. 453.
C. rotundifolia Cajetana, &c, Cup. Pamph. vol. i. t. 192 ; Bocc. Ic. rar. p. 64,
t. 27.
It is somewhat singular that so long-known and beautiful
a herbaceous plant as the subject of the present plate should
be seldom seen in cultivation. The only figure of it given
in an English work is that of a smaller flowered more hairy
variety by Lindley in the " Botanical Register," who says
of it : " ïn its native stations it is one of the most lovely
objecta imaginable. Often have we heard travellers from
Italy expatiating upon the beauty of the spots which are
enamelled with the bright blue flowers of this interesting
stranger, but it was never our good fortune to see it alive,
till we met with it in the garden of Mrs. Marryatt at
Wimbledon."
The specimen here figured is of a large-flowered form,
which I found in the garden of Miss Wedgwood, at Down,
JCLY 1ST, 1SV V ".