Tab. 7358. 

 CAMPANULA excim. 



Native of the Valais Alps. 



Nat. Ord. Campanulacejs.— Tribe Campanule^e. 

 Genus Campanula, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 561.) 



Campanula (Eucodon) excisa; perennis, glaberrima gracillima, caulibus sub- 

 simplicibus paucifloris, foliis (radicalibus 0) sparsis linearibus obtusis 

 remote denticulatis, floribns longe gracile pedicellatia nntantibus, 

 calycis glabri tubo brevi turbinato lobis setaceis patulis corolla cam- 

 panulata coerulea triplo brevioribus, corollaa lobis ovatis subacutis 

 marginibua infra medium incurvis sinubus rotundatis, filamentis 

 brevibus dilatatis ciliatis, capaula pedicellata nutante obconica. 



C. excisa, Schleich. ex Murrith, Guid. du Voy. en Valais, pp. 33, 35. 



DC. Cat. Eort. Monsp. (1814) p. 86. Lodd, Bot. Cab. t. 561. Beiehb. 



PI. Grit. vol. i. t. 78. Gaud. Fl. Heket. vol. ii. p. 147, t. 2. A.DC. in 



DC. Pxodr. vol. vii. p. 472. Masters in Gard. Chron. (1893) vol. ii. p. 307, 



f . 53. 



A very elegant plant, of which the published figures, 

 with the exception of the woodcut in the Gardener's 



Chronicle, are so exceptionally bad, that it would be im- 

 possible to recognize the species by them. Its habit is 

 that of our common Harebell, G. rotundifolia, but it wants 

 the broad radical leaves of that plant, and the lobes of the 

 corolla which are separated by a wide rounded sinus are 

 involute at the base, giving a dark shade of colour to each 

 sinus, which is difficult to represent in a drawing, without 

 giving the idea of there being deep blue spots between each 

 pair of lobes. 



Though abundant in some part of the Alps, especially in 

 the Monte Eosa district of the Valais, C. excisa is by no 

 means a common Swiss plant. It is mentioned in A. de 

 Candolle's " Geographie Botanique " (p. 587) as an example 

 of his " Especes a aire tres petite," though its limits are 

 not so narrow as the author supposed. There are many 

 specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium from the above 

 region, and only one from East or West of it, namely from 

 Mt. Cenis. None of the native examples are much more 

 than half the height which the specimens grown at Kew 



June 1st, 1894. 



