Musschia

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Musschia (named after Jean Henri Mussche, of the botanic garden at Ghent). Campanulaceae. Two large robust subshrubs or perennial herbs in Madeira, sometimes grown by amateurs: lvs. radical and cauline, the former large and dentate and the latter few and small: fls. rather large, yellow, or fulvous, in pyramidal panicles; calyx-lobes 5, somewhat foliaceous, colored like the corolla or purple; corolla-tube short, cylindrical, with a 5-lobed spreading or recurved limb; stamens 5, free from the corolla; ovary inferior, 5-celled, many- ovuled, the stigma 5-lobed: caps, opening by numerous transverse lateral slits.

M.aurea, Dum. (Campanula aurea, Linn. f.). Herb, stemless or developing a st. a few inches high, with thick and fleshy roots, smooth and shining: lvs. in radical tufts, elliptic or elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, serrate: corolla yellow; calyx deeper yellow. B.R. 57.— M. Wollastonii, Lowe. Shrubby, pubescent, the st. simple or somewhat branched: lvs. obovate-oblong, thin and flaccid, sharply serrate: fls. dull dark brownish green or purple. B.M. 5606. G.W. 2, pp. 362, 363.


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