

S38 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Campanula. ■ 



pa'tula. C. Leaves stiff and straight : root-leaves spear- egg-shaped: 



panicle expanding. 



E. hot. m-Dill. 58. 68-27. dan. 373. 



Stem with 5 corners and 5 flat sides, roughish with short hairs, 

 containing a milky juice. Leaves sometimes toothed, sometimes 

 finely serrated. Cup segments towards the base serrated with 

 minute teeth, but my specimens do not shew the livid tooth on 

 each side the base mentioned by Linnaeus. Bloss. conical, larger, 

 more of a reddish purple than in the preceding species, more ex- 

 panded at the mouth, segments curved backwards, and each 

 marked with 3 lines. Whether the plant be in flower or not, 

 these observations are at all times sufficient to discriminate it 

 from the C. rotundifalta. 



Field Bell-flower. Woods, hedges, corn fields, and road sides, 

 in a moist soil. [ Borders of Buddon Wood, near Loughborough; 

 between Lichfield and Meriden ; and about Worcester. Huds. 

 And Malvern. Nash. — Near the Bath at Lichfield ; and on the 

 road to Coleshill. Mr. Woodward. On the road side in a wet 

 lane in the village called Water Orton. Near Hagley on the 

 Kidderminster road, plentiful. On the left hand side of the 

 Meriden road about six miles from Birmingham.] B. July, Aug. 



Rapun 'cuius. C. Leaves waved: root-leaves spear-oval: panicle compact. 



Fh dan. 855-E. hot. 2%3-Kniph. U-Dod. \65. \~Loh. oh. 

 178. $-Ger. em. 453-Pari. (>4S. l-H. ox. v. 2. 13.- 

 Fuchs.'ZW-J. P. ii. 79^-Ger. 369. 2-Trag. 727. 



Fruit-stalk generally growing by threes, the middle one the 

 longest. Linn. Resembles the C. patula in the roughness of its 

 angular stem, its milky juice, the size of its blossoms, and the 3 

 lines on their segments, but may be distinguished from it by the 

 flowers and fruit-stalks being nearly upright, not expanding, by 

 the segments of the calyx being bristle shaped, not spear-shaped, 

 and by the stipulse on the fruit-stalks being very slender and half 

 the length of the fruit-stalk, whilst in the C. patula they are 

 spear-shaped and short. Bloss. purplish blue, sometimes very pale 



Ram/>i*ns. Hedge-banks, fallowfields. Near Croydon. Huds. 

 [Old Buckingham Castle, Norfolk. Mr. Pitchford. Hindlip> 

 Wore. St. and Enville, Staffordsh.] B. July, Aug.* 



(2) Leaves rougher and broader. 



, Iatifo'lia* C. Leaves egg-spear-shaped : stem unbranched, cylindri- 

 cal : flowers solitary, on fruit-stalks : fruit drooping. 



* The roots are eaten raw in sallads, or boiled like Asparagus. I* 1 

 Gardens they are blanched. 





