CAMPANULA (

See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

Bell-

See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower)  , in botany, a genus of plants containing about 230 species, found in the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, chiefly in the Mediterranean region . The name is taken from the bell-shaped flower . The plants are perennial, rarely annual or biennial, herbs with spikes or racemes of white, blue or lilac flowers . Several are native in Britain; Campanula rotund folic is the harebell (q.v.) or Scotch bluebell, a common plant on pastures and heaths, the delicate slender stem bears one or a few drooping bell-shaped flowers; C . Rapunculus, rampion or ramps, is a larger plant with a panicle of broadly campanulate red-purple or blue flowers, and occurs on gravelly roadsides and hedgebanks, but is rare . It is cultivated, but not extensively, for its fleshy roots, which are used, either boiled or raw, as salad . Many of the species are grown in gardens for their elegant flowers; the dwarf forms are excellent for pot culture, rockeries or fronts of borders . C . Medium, Canterbury bell, with large blue, purple and white flowers, is a favourite and handsome biennial, of which there are numerous varieties . C. persicifolia, a perennial with more open flowers, is also a well-known border plant, with numerous forms, including white and blue-flowered and single and double . C. glomerata, which has sessile flowers crowded in heads on the stems and branches, found native in Britain in chalky and dry pastures, is known in numerous varieties as a border plant .. C. pyramidalis, with numerous flowers forming a tall pyramidal inflorescence, is a handsome species, There are also a number of alpine species suitable for rockeries, such as C. alpina, caucasica, caespitosa and others .

The plants are easily cultivated . The perennials are propagated by dividing the roots or by

young cuttings in spring, or by seeds .