The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . , andspreading ; the nectary in the bottom of the corolla, composed of fivevalves, acute, converging, and covering the receptacle; the stamensconsist of five capillary filaments, very short, inserted on the tips ofthe valvs of the nectary ; tiie anthers are longer than the filaments,and compressed ; th
The American flora : or history of plants and wild flowers : containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation , &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc. . , andspreading ; the nectary in the bottom of the corolla, composed of fivevalves, acute, converging, and covering the receptacle; the stamensconsist of five capillary filaments, very short, inserted on the tips ofthe valvs of the nectary ; tiie anthers are longer than the filaments,and compressed ; the pistlllwn is an angular inferior germ ; the stijlefiliform, and longer than the stamens; the stigma three-parted, oblong,and thickish ; divisions revolutc; the pericarpium is a roundishangular capsule, tliree or five-celled, emitting the seeds at so manylateral openings; the seeds are small and numerous; the receptacleis columnar and adnate. There are various other species cultiva-ted for ornamental and medical purposes. Campanula persicifolia. Peach leaved Bell-flower. This lias aroot resembling that of Navew, and eatable; the stem is verystraight, eighteen inches or more high, (in gardens when cultivated,from two to three feet) unbranched, angular, smooth, and also the Vol. iv.— «>. St ? ? NAT. ORDER.—CAMPANULACEiE. ? &^ , - •whole plant; the flowers are in a thia spike, one or two together, /•on very long peduncles, which have two stipules at the base; thecorolla is large, broad bell-form, deep blue ; the segments are shortand moderately acuminate. It is a perennial plant, native of most t- «parts of this country, and is found in many parts of Europe. * Cumpamda pijramidalis. Steeple Bell-flower. This species asit appears in the garden, has thick, tuberous roots, which are milky ; - j^these send out three or four strong, smooth, upright stalks, whichrise nearly four feet in height, and are garnished with smooth, oblongleaves, whose edges are a little inden
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