PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Jasione. '295 



simple, crenate or entire ; in some almost grassy. Most 

 of the oriental species bear scattered Jloivcrs ; and one, 

 Plupinnalum, see Fl. Gncc. t. 220, has compound leaves. 



1. V\\. orbicular c. Round-headed llampion. 

 Flowers in a roundish head. Leaves crenate ; radical ones 



heart-shaped, or elliptic-lanceolate. 

 Ph. orbiculare. Lmn. Sp. V12A2. Willd. v. \.92\. rLBr2A0. 



Eugl. Bot. V. 2. M42. Uook. Lond. t. 55. Jacq. Aiistr. t. 437- 



Rapunculus n. 681. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 304. 



R. corniculatus. jRii".3/oH07^. /rr. M 09./. 1. ... ^ 



R rorniculatus montunus. Rail Sini.27S. Gcr. Em. A-r^.f. '=>■ 



R. cornlculatus, folio oblongo, spica orbiculuri. Moris, v. 2. 463. 



sect. 5. t.D. f. 47. ^^_ 



R.corniculatus carulcus minor, i^rirre/. Ic.^ a'-.). 



Rapuntium montanum ravius, corniculatum. Column. Lcplir. —3 

 ^.224. 



In pastures, and bv road sides, on a chalky soil, bat rare. 



On the downs of ' Sussex and Hampshire, ni manv places. Ray 

 In several parts of Surrey and Kent. Hudson, Hooker. Plentiful 

 near Leatherhead. 



Perennial. August. rr ; -u 



Root long and woodv, divided at the crown. Herb mdky, not 

 acrid. Stems solitary, simple, leafy, somewhat angular, smooth 

 a foot hi^h, or more. Leaves smooth, crenate, with a midrib 

 and many reticulated veins ; the earliest radical ones hear - 

 shaued • the next, like those on the lower part of the stem, el- 

 iiptic-lanceolate3 all on long stalks : those on the upper part 

 ovate or lanceolate, sessile, fringed at the base. H of an in- 

 tensely brilliant deep blue, numerous, inodorous, sessile, tormmg 

 a round head, accompanied by several close, ovate-lanceolate, 

 eafy braeteas. As the 3-celled eapsules ripen, the head be- 

 com^es oval, and the parts of the Jlower, alter lasting long in a 

 S state are finally, as Professor Hooker observes, deciduous, 

 except the fringed ealyx. The figures of Morison and Bar- 

 relier are copied from that ot Columna. 



108. JASIONE. SheepVblt. 



4'- rwco ir.r. Fl Br 241. Lam. t. 724. Gartn. 

 Linn. Gen. Add. Ji^ss. loo. ri.m.^-^ 



t.SO. 



Nat. Ord. see Ji. 106. 



Cal superior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, acute segments, perma- 

 n^Tcor. wheel-shaped, i. 5 deep, l-cec>h e ecpud 

 straight, moderately spreadmg segments f ^^^- ^^l" 

 shaped, short. Ani/^- oblong, combined at the base. 



