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CAMPANULA SPECULUM. VENUS'S LOOKING-GLa.s.s.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ campanulata, fundo clauso valvis staminiferis. _Stigma_ trifidum. _Capsula_ infera, poris lateralibus dehiscens.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CAMPANULA Speculum caule ramosissimo, diffuso; foliis oblongis subcrenatis, floribus solitariis, capsulis prismaticis. _Linn.

Syst. Vegetab. p. 209._

On.o.bRYCHIS arvensis f. Campanula arvensis erecta. _Bauh. Pin. 215._

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Grows wild among the corn in the South of Europe, is an annual, and, like the _Sweet Alyssum_, generally cultivated in our gardens, and most deservedly so indeed, for when a large a.s.semblage of its blossoms are expanded by the rays of the sun, their brilliancy is such as almost to dazzle the eyes of the beholder.

Those annuals which bear our winter's frosts without injury, are advantageously sown in the autumn; for by that means they flower more early, and their seeds ripen with more certainty; the present plant is one of those: it usually sows itself, and is therefore raised without any trouble.

It begins to flower in May and June, and continues to enliven the garden till August or September.

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PELARGONIUM ACETOSUM. SORREL CRANE'S-BILL.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

MONADELPHIA HEPTANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-part.i.tus: lacinia suprema definente in tubulum capillarem, nectariferum, secus pedunculum decurrentem. _Cor._ 5-petala, irregularis. _Filam._ 10. in aequalia: quorum 3 (raro 5) castrata.

_Fructus_, 5-coccus, rostratus: rostra spiralia, introrsum barbata.

_L'Herit. Geran._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

PELARGONIUM _acetosum_ umbellis paucifloris, foliis obovatis crenatis glabris carnosis, petalis linearibus. _L'Herit. Monogr de Geran. n.

97._