Volume Iv Part 3 (1/2)
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CAMPANULA CARPATICA. CARPATIAN BELL-FLOWER.
_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 _carpatica_ foliis glabris cordatis serratis petiolatis, pedunculis elongatis, calyce reflexo glutinoso. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 207. Suppl. p. 140._ _Jacq. Hort. v.
i. t. 57._
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This species of Bell-flower, which takes its name from its place of growth, is a native of the Carpatian Alps, and was introduced into the Royal Garden at Kew, by _Professor_ JACQUIN, of _Vienna_, in the year 1774.
It flowers in June and July.
As yet it is scarce in our gardens, but deserves to be more generally known and cultivated; its flowers, in proportion to the plant, are large and shewy: like many other Alpine plants, it is well suited to decorate certain parts of rock-work, or such borders of the flower garden, as are not adapted for large plants.
It is a hardy perennial, and propagated by parting its roots in autumn.
Our figure, from a deficiency in the colouring art, gives a very inadequate idea of its beauty.
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SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. EVERGREEN ORPINE.
_Cla.s.s and Order._
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
_Generic Character._
_Cal._ 5-fidus. _Cor._ 5-petala. _Squamae_ nectariferae 5, ad basin germinis. _Caps._ 5.
_Specific Character and Synonyms._
SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus basi attenuatis subsessilibus, caulibus dec.u.mbentibus, floribus corymbosis. _Ait. Hort. Kew. p.
108._
SEDUM _Anacampseros_ foliis cuneiformibus integerrimis caulibus dec.u.mbemtibus, floribus corymbosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed.
Murr. p. 430._
TELEPHIUM repens folio deciduo. _Bauh. Pin. 287._