Campanula.] CAMPANULAOEjE. 1 3* 



wiry, eight to ten inches long, or more. Leaves small. Flowers of a 

 deep rose-colour. The berries are used in Dublin and elsewhere in 

 Ireland for making- tarts. 



Ord. 37. CAMPANuLACE.^E. Juss. Bell-flower Family. 



Tube of the calyx adnate with the ovary ; its limb 4 — 8-ge- 

 nerally 5-cleft, equal, persistent. Corolla monopetalous, deci- 

 duous or marcescent, regular or irregular, 5, sometimes 4 — 6 — 8- 

 cleft, rarely of 5 petals with broad connivent claws. Stamens 

 inserted upon a disk which is adnate with the ovary (base of the 

 corolla?), sometimes upon the corolla, equal in number with the 

 segments of the corolla, and alternate with them ; anthers fixed to 

 the base, 2-celled, cells opposite, opening longitudinally, distinct 

 or cohering. Ovary 2 — or many-celled, many-seeded. Style 1 ; 

 stigma 1, or generally as many as there are cells of the ovary, 

 naked or covered by an indusium. Capsule wholly adnate with 

 the tube of the calyx, and opening below the limb with lateral 

 pores, or half-adnate and valvate at the extremity, the valves 

 bearing the placentas. Seeds numerous, small, with a fleshy 

 albumen. Embryo straight, as long as the albumen. — Her- 

 baceous plants or under shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers single, 

 or in heads ; usually purple. 



1. Campanula. Linn. Bell-flower. 



Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla campanulate, 5-cleft. Stamens 5, with the 

 filaments broadest at the base. Stigma 4 — or 5-parted. Cap- 

 sule 3 — 5-celled, opening by perforations towards the base. — 

 Named from the usual form of the corolla, Campana, a bell. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. C. rotundifolia, Linn. Round-leaved Bel!-Jlower or Hare- 

 bell. Kadical leaves heart or kidney-shaped ; stem leaves linear, 

 entire. Br. Fl. \.p. 100. E. Fl.v. i. p. 287. E. Bot. t. 866. 



Dry and hilly pastures, borders of fields and wall-tops, abundant, 

 sometimes varying with white flowers, instead of blue, the usual colour. 

 Fl. July — Sept. %. — Panicle of few flowers, lax. Flowers droop- 

 ing. Whole plant slender and graceful. 



2. C. latifolia, Linn. Giant Bell-Jlower. Leaves roughish, 

 ovato-lanceolate; stem unbranched, round; stalks single-flowered ; 

 fruit drooping. Br. Fl. 1. p. 101. E. Fl.v. i. p. 290. E. 

 Bot. t. 302. 



Moist shady woods. Woods by the river Barrow, above New Ross. 

 FL July, Aug. %. — From two to three feet high. Corolla very 

 large, blue, (sometimes white in gardens and in woods in Scotland.) 

 This is the most stately of our species. 



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