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 Phyteuma spicatum. Spiked Rampion. 



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C7#ss «/irf Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. rotata, 5-partita : laciniis linearibus. Stigma 2- 

 s. 3-fidum. Caps. 2- s. 3-locularis, infera. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Phyteuma spicatum; spica oblonga elongata, stylis pilosius- 



culis, (bi-) trifidis, foliis radicalibus cordatis duplicato- 



dentatis. Willd. Sp. PL 1 . p. 923. Roem. et Sch. Syst. 



Veg. 5. p. 82. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 355. 

 Phyteuma spicatum. De Cand. Flor. Fran$. n. 2867. 

 Rapunculus spicatus. Mill. Diet. Scopol. Carniol ed 2 



n. 238. Bauh. Pin. 92. Bauh. Prodr. t. 32. 

 Rapunculus foliis radicalibus cordatis,, tubis bicornibus 



revolutis. Hall. Hist. n. 684. 

 Rapuntium majus. Ger. emac. 453. f. 1. 

 Rapunculum alopecuron. Dod. pempt. 165. 

 Rapuntium majus alopecuri comoso flore. Lob. ic. 329. f. 1 

 Rapunculus corniculatus spicatus, s. alopecuroides. Moris 



Hist. 2. p. 463. s. 5. *. 5. / 46. 

 Rapunculus corniculatus spica longiore. Riv. Monop. irreg 



108. 

 («.) floribus ochroleucis. 

 (|3.) floribus caeruleis. 



Some authors have described the flowers of Phyteuma 

 spicatum as being of a blue colour, others of a yellowish 

 white. It is not improbable that both colours may exist 

 in the same species, but we are inclined to think that 

 two different species have been confounded together ; and 

 perhaps the trifid or bifid division of the stigma may 



distinguish 



