PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 293 



ing to the lanceolate, or linear, bracteas, of the long, straight, 

 simple, many-flowered, terminal cluster. Fl. on very short 

 stalks, bright purplish blue, hairy, half the size of the last, droop- 

 ing all to one side. Cal recurved, rough-edged, entire, not ser- 

 rated. Caps, roundish, with 3 prominent angles, opening by 3 

 large intermediate pores near its base. 



7. C. Trachelium, Nettle-leaved Bell-flower. 



Stem angular. Leaves lanceolate, partly heart-shaped, 

 sharply serrated, bristly as well as the calyx. Stalks 

 axillary, with few flowers. 



C. Trachelium. Linn. Sp. PI. 235. Willd. v. 1 . 903. Fl. Br. 238. 

 Engl. Bot. v.\.t.\2. Hook. Lond. t. 109. Scot. 75. Fl. Dan 

 *.1026, 



C. n. 690. Hall. Hist. v. 1.307. 



C. vulgatior, foliis urticse, vel major et asperior. Bauh. Pin. 94. 

 Rail Syn. 276. 



C. Cervicaria dicta. Fuchs. Hist. 431. t. 432. 



Trachelium majus. Ger. Em. 448./. 



Uvularia major. Trag. Hist. 926. t. 927. 



Cervicaria major. Dod. Pempt. 164./. 



In groves, thickets, and hedges, frequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root thick, and rather woody. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, simple, 

 straight, leafy, with several slightly winged and roughish angles. 

 Leaves harsh, coarsely and unequally serrated, taper-pointed, 

 ribbed j the lowest large, on long stalks, heart-shaped, much 

 resembling the Common Perennial Nettle ; the upper ones on 

 shorter stalks, and more lanceolate, or ovate. Fl. on shortish, 

 simple or divided, stalks, from the bosoms of many of the upper- 

 most leaves, large, deep blue, sometimes white. Cal. simply 5- 

 cleft, generally bristly at the base and margin. Cor. perfectly 

 bell-shaped, more or less fringed. The bristles of the leaves are 

 often as pungent as those of a Nettle, though not venomous. 



The name Trachelium, from rpccyrjXoc, the neck, alludes to the re- 

 puted virtues of this plant in disorders of the throat, to which 

 the other appellations of old authors allude. A decoction of 

 the herb, which is bitter and somewhat acrid, was used as a 

 gargle. 



8. C. glomerata. Clustered Bell-flower. 



Stem angular, simple. Flowers sessile, most of them in a 

 terminal head. Leaves ovate, crenate. 



C. glomerata. Linn. Sp. PI. 235. Willd. v. 1 . 903. Fl. Br. 238. 



Engl. Bot. v. 2. t. 90. Hook. Scot. 75. 

 C. n. 685. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 305. 

 C, pratensis, flore conglomerate. Bauh, Pin. 94, Raii Syn. 277 '. 



