Campanulaceae
A genus containing about a score species of half-hardy perennial herbaceous plants, natives (with the exception of one from Abyssinia) of the Cape of Good Hope. Corolla bilabiate; segments easily separated to the base, spreading at the apex. Leaves alternate, undivided, pinnate, and pinnatifid. They thrive in an equal mixture of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings will root readily under a hand glass, in a cool house. Some species have large tuberous roots, which must be kept quite dry when not in a growing state, or they will rot. They may be increased just as the stems begin to push out from the root, by cutting off as many of the shoots as are required, and placing them in a small pot, in the soil recommended above, with plenty of sand. The young plants should be kept dry till callused, but not covered with glass. They will soon form tubers of themselves, and the old plants will make fresh shoots.
C. bulbosa (bulbous). fl. pale blue. August. l. digitate; lower ones pinnatifid, with unequal lanceolate lobes; upper ones often simple. Stem rarely branched. h. 6in. 1791.
C. Cardamines (Cardamine-like). fl. racemose, on very short pedicels. July. l. pinnate, with ovate, toothed leaflets. Stem scape-formed, simple. h. 6in. 1823.
C. Phyteuma (Rampion). fl. pink; scape erect. February. l. oblong, crenated, ciliated. h. 3in. 1822. (B. R. 625.) C. volubilis (twining). fl. axillary, solitary, pedicellate; corolla pale blue, ringent or bilabiate, about 1in. long. l. entire and toothed, linear. Stems filiform, twining contrary to the sun's apparent motion. 1795.