PENTANDRIA— MOXOGYNIA. Campanula. !^Sy 



C. patula. Lhni.Sp. PL 232. JfVJdv. 1 . 896. Fl. Br. 235. Engl 

 Bot. v.X.t 42. Hook. Land. t.b\. Fl. Dan. t'373. Piutln 

 V.3.3A2. 



C. n. 698. Hall. Hist. V. 1.309. 



C. esculentaj facie, raniis et tloribus patulis. Dill. Elth. 68. i.bS. 



C. minor alba, sive purpurea. Gcr. Em. 452 /. ? 



In pastures, borders of fields, and hedges, rare. 



On the outside of l^uddon wood, Leicestershire. Mr. Woodward. 

 In many parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. Withering 

 Near Holt, Norfolk. Rev. J{. B. Franci.t. At Cobham, Surry. 

 Engl. But. In several parts of that county and Kent. Mr. Graves. 

 In many places about Alcester. Burton' 



Biennial. July, August. 



Roof small, tapering, white. Stem erect, 2 feet high, leafy, having 

 about 5 angles, fringed with short deflexed hairs ; pan'icled and 

 spreading at the summit. Radical leaves stalked, spreading, 

 obovate, elliptical, or oblong, obtuse, bluntly crenate, roughish[ 

 or fringed ; turning yellow, and withering when the^flowers ap- 

 pear 3 the stetn-lcaves are alternate, sessile, lanceolate or linear, 

 acute, less crenate, and rather smoother. Fl. of a fine blue, larger 

 than the preceding, more tapering at the lower part ; the limb 

 ribbed, gradually spreading. Segments of the calyx awl-shaped, 

 with one or more livid teeth on each side, towards the base. The 

 herbage, though bitter and milky, is often eaten by cattle. 



3. C. Rapiinmlus, Rainpion Bell-flower. 



Leaves wavy, crenate, roiighish ; radical ones elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate. Stem angular ; hairy below. Panicle compact. 

 Calyx entire. 



C. Rapunculus. Linn. Sp. PL 232. Willd.v. 1 . 896. FL Br. 236. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 283. Hook. Loud. t. 80. Fl. Dan. t. 8.)5. 

 C. n. 699. Hall. Hist. v.\.3\0. 

 Rapunculus. Camer. Epit. 221. f. bad. Maith. Falgr. v. 1. 397./. 



much worse ; like a Linuni. 

 R. esculentus. Bauh. Pin. 92. Baii Syn. 277. 

 Rapuntium parvum. Ger. Em. 453. f. 

 Rapum sylvestre. Fuchs. Hist. 214 f. Ic. 122. 

 Raponeoli. Brunf. Herb. v. 2. 84./. 



On banks, and about the borders of fields, not common. 



About Old Buckenham castle, Norfolk. Mr. Pitchfurd. In many 

 parts of Kent and Surry, as well as in other ))laceSj on a gravelly 

 soil ; having formerly perhaps escaped from gardens. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Root spindle-shaped, white, milky, sweet, with a bitterish pun- 

 gency ; when cultivated, milder. It was formerly eaten raw, or 

 variously dressed. Stem a yard high, leafy, angular, more or 



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