This section is from the book "The Flower-Garden; Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers", by Joseph Breck. Also available from Amazon: The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers.
An elegant new annual, from California, with blue, bell-shaped flowers. It produces its flowers in continued succession, from June to October. In habit the plant resembles the Eutoca tribe, but the flowers are more like the Campanula; of a very rich dark blue. In heavy, wet soils, this plant does not succeed well, but flourishes in light, sandy loam.
 
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