Tas, 6588. 
CAMPANULA ALLIONII, 
Native of the Alps of Piedmont and Savoy. 
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACERZ.—Tribe CAMPANULER. 
Genus Campanuta, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 561.) 
CaMPANULA (Medium) Allionzi ; humilis, pilosiuscula, rhizomate elongato ramulos 
foliosos breves emittente, caulibus simplicibus 1-floris basi foliosis, foliis rosulatis 
linearibus obtusis v. subacutis fere integerrimis primariis obovato-spathulatis, 
caulinis paucis linearibus basi lata sessilibus, flore magno nutante, lobis calycinis 
ovato- v. lineari-lanceolatis acutis, sinubus appendicibus pilosis reflexis obtusis, 
corolla campanulata ampla, ovario 3-loculari. 
C. Allionii, Villars Fl, Delph. p. 18,‘Fl. Dauph. vol. i. pp. 302, 383, et vol. ii. 
p. 512, t. 10; Lam.et DC. Fl. France. n. 2851; Alph. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. 
p- 461; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. xix. t. 1591. 
C. alpestris, Allioni Fl. Pedem. p. 113, t. 6, f. 3, non Lapeyr. 
C. nana, Lamk. Dict. vol. i. p. 585. 
The habit of this local and very beautiful campanula is 
peculiar, the stem proper consisting of an underground 
branching rhizome, which gives off numerous rather distant 
leafing and flowering stems a few inches high, each bearing 
a flower, which is the largest for the size of the plant of 
any species of the genus. This habit adapts it well for its 
chosen habitats, which are the moving slopes of soil at the 
bases of precipices. Its range in the Alps is confined to 
those of Piedmont and Savoy, two of its principal stations 
being Mont Cenis and Mont Ventoux, 
C. Allionit was introduced by G. Maw, Esq., who sent 
me the specimen here figured in June, 1879, from his rich 
garden at Brosely in Shropshire. 
Descr. Rootstock subterranean, slender, creeping, sending 
out rather distant leafing and flowering stems three to five 
inches high. Leaves few, lower crowded or rosulate, one 
to two inches long, linear from a broad sessile base, slightly 
OCTOBER lst, 1881, 
