294 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 



Trachelium minus. Ger. Em. 449./. 



T. alpinum, tloribus conglomeratis. Herm. Farad. 235. t. 235. 



Uapunculus calyculatus. Barrel. Ic. t. 523. /. 3. 



Gentiana collina. With. 282. t. 1 1 ./. 8. From the author. 



In dry open chalky pastures. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Hoot rather woody, with long fibres. Stem from 1 to 18 inches 

 high, never branched unless injured, erect, straight, angular, 

 hoary with short deflexed hairs. Radical and lower stem-leaves 

 oblong-heart-shaped, on long stalks j upper ones more acute, 

 ovate, sessile, clasping the stem ; all crenate, hoary all over 

 with short close hairs j paler at the back. Ft. of a purplish, 

 deep, but rich, blue, most of them in a dense terminal head, 

 subtended by 2 broad, concave, pointed, hoary bracteas ; a few 

 occasionally', solitary or in pairs, sessile from the bosoms of the 

 upper leaves. Cal. simply 5 -cleft, hoary. Cor. rather cylindri- 

 cal, hairy, about one third the size of the last. 



In a cultivated state the herbage becomes over luxuriant, and less 

 hoary ; thejlowers paler, more numerous, but far less handsome. 



Such is the case with many of the true chalk-country plants. 



9. C. hybrida. Corn Bell-flower. 



Stem often branched from the base, straight. Leaves ob- 

 long, crenate, wavy. Corolla widely spreading, shorter 

 than the calyx. Capsule prismatic. 



C. hybrida. Linn. % PI. 239. Willd. v. \. 913. Fl.Br.239. Engl. 

 Bot. v. 6. £.375. 



C. n. 704. Hall. Hist. v. 1.311. 



C. arvensis erecta. Rati Syn. 278. Moris, v. 2. 457. sect, 5. t. 2. 

 /. 22. 



Speculum Veneris minus. Ger. Em. 439./. 



Onobrychis altera Belgarum et Dodonaei. Lob. Ic. 418./ 



In dry or chalky cornfields. 



Annual. August. 



Root small, tapering. Herb barely a span high, pale greyish green, 

 rough with prominent, rigid, minute hairs, especially the stem, 

 and the undulating margins of the oval sessile leaves. Fl. few, 

 terminal, solitary, sessile. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, 

 spreading, rough. Cor. scarcely half their length, almost wheel- 

 shaped, with 5 plaits, deep blue, with a pale centre. Germea 

 much lengthened after impregnation, becoming a long triangu- 

 lar, downy capsule, opening towards the summit by 3 lateral 

 pores. 



10. C. hcderacea. Ivy-leaved Bell-flower. 



Stem flaccid, much branched, procumbent. Leaves stalked, 

 smooth, heart-shaped, with angular lobes. 



