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MICHAUXIA CAMPANULOIDES.
MICHAUXIA.
Clafs and Order.
-OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
ROUGH-
Cal. i 6-partitus. Cor. rotata, 8-partita. Neffarium 8-valve,
ftaminiferum. Caff. 8-locularis, polyfperma. L' Heritier
Monogr.
Specific Charaffer and Synonyms.
MICHAUXIA campanuloides. L' Heritier Monogr.
The celebrated author of the Hortus Kewenjis informs us,
that the plant here figured is a native of the Levant, and
was introduced to this country in the year 1787, by Monf.
L' HERITIER, who firft gave it the name of Michauxia, and
wrote a Monographia, or particular treatife on it.
We have before obferved, that \vhen a plant has been
named in honour of any particular perfon, that name muft
be retained in all countries, however uncouth its pronuncia
tion may be, and there are few of our readers but what will
think the prefent name fufficiently fo.
Laft fummer 1792, in the month of July, we had the
pleafure to fee a fine plant of this fort, fully blown, in the
collection of Meflrs. GRIMWOOD and Co. Kenfington;
though in a fmall pot, it grew nearly to the height of fix feet,
was branched almoft to the bottom, and loaded with a pro-
fufion of bloflbms, fuch as are reprefented on the plate, and
which bore fome diftant refemblance to thofe of a paflion-
flower.
It is a biennial green-houfe plant, and, of courfe, only
to be raifed from feeds, which we are forry to find have not
ripened in this country, though they are faid to do fo in France. I