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CAMPANULA SPECULUM. VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS.


_Class 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._

ONOBRYCHIS 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 assemblage of its blossoms are
expanded by the rays of the sun, their brilliancy is such as almost to