PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 289 



C. minor rotundifolia vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 93. 



C. minor alpina, rotundioribus imis foliis. Clus.Hist. v. 2. 173, as 

 to the figure, which is Gerardes. 



C. sylvestris minima. Dod.P erupt. 167 ; the same figure. 



On heaths, walls, banks, and about the borders of fields, common. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root somewhat creeping, rather woody. Herb smooth, dark green. 

 Stems more or less crowded, upright, round, sometimes a little 

 downy, about a span high, slightly, if at all, branched, each ter- 

 minating in a loose cluster of a few drooping, blue flowers, on 

 long, slender, tremulous stalks s with an awl-shaped bractea to 

 each. The radical leaves are numerous, heart-shaped, with a 

 blunt point, and 4 or 5 bluntish serratures at each side ; their 

 footstalks thrice as long as the leaves, linear and very narrow j 

 some of these leaves are often kidney-shaped ; others ovate, or 

 lanceolate, and entire. They all usually wither very soon, so 

 that the plant, when in flower, is found with stem-leaves only, 

 which are long, linear, acute, entire and very narrow, tapering 

 at the base into short footstalks. Segments of the calyx linear- 

 awl-shaped, entire, spreading. Cor. thrice as long, twisted in 

 decay. Capsule roundish. Sometimes, though rarely, the Jlowers 

 are white. 



On mountain rocks this species may perhaps assume a more humble 

 stature, with fewer flowers j nor are such variations unusual 

 with it in barren ground. One of them was originally taken for 

 C. unifiora of Linnaeus, a very different plant, by Mr. Hudson j 

 and probably by Ray for C. alpina rotundifolia minor, of Bauh. 

 Prodr. 34. This latter is really C. parva Anguillarcc Cantabrica, 

 Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 796 ; and there is a good figure in each of these 

 places. It is C. n. 702 of Haller ; C. t. 189 of Fl. Dan.; and 

 C. pumila of Dr. Sims in Curt. Mag. £.512 ; being C. ccespitosa 

 of Villars, and of Scopoli, as well as pusilla of Hoenke in Jacq. 

 Coll. v. 2. 79. In our gardens it is usually white, and grows 

 luxuriantly under a frame, or in the open border j being doubt- 

 less a constant and very distinct species, characterized by the 

 numerous serrated, obovate or lanceolate, stem -leaves ; to say 

 nothing of its smaller size, and brighter green hue. I have no 

 authority for believing that this C. cccspitosa, for so it should be 

 called, has ever been seen wild in Britain. In the Fl. Brit. I re- 

 lied on former authors, who have every one of them committed 

 some error in the synonyms, which the detail here given will 

 enable the reader to trace. 



2. C. patula. Spreading Bell-flower. 



Radical leaves obovate, or elliptic-lanceolate; the rest li- 

 near-lanceolate ; all even, crenate and roughish. Stem 

 with several fringed angles. Panicle spreading. Calyx 

 minutely toothed. 



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