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PENTANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Campanula. 



H. ox. v. 4. 40 &f 43-Herm. par. 235-Thal. 8 . Q-Barr. 

 523. 3. 



Leaves egg-oblong, sitting, bluntish. One flower in the bo- 

 som of each of the three upper leaves, the others forming a ter- 

 minating cluster. Linn. Root perennial, branched, fibrous. Stem 

 generally 8 or W inches high. Leaves spear-shaped, hairy, 

 somewhat serrated ; the lower leaves on the larger plants on long 

 leaf-stalks, and sometimes heart-shaped at the base.^ Calyx 

 segments hairy, sometimes toothed. BIoss. blue, or white ; not 

 unfrequently both on the same plant ; hairy within. Stamens 

 cither 4 or 5. Style long, woolly, slightly cloven either into 

 tl or o fleshy, villose, spear-shaped summits. 



Few plants vary more than this both in size and inhabit. In 

 general it is from if to 1 foot high, hairy and dry ; but in the 

 wet climate of Kendal Mr. Gough has observed it c 2 feet high, 

 with a trailing stem, green, and but little hairy. On the other 

 hand, when growing on a high and very dry soil, as on the sum- 

 mit of Aston Down in the Isle of Wight, it is only from 1 to 

 2 inches high (see PI. 11. f. 8.) can scarcely be said to have a 

 stem ; bears only 1 or 2 flowers, with 4 stamens and frequently 

 but 2 summits. The examination of two imperfect specimens of 

 this kind erroneously led me to think it a Gentian. Not being 

 able to procure more specimens, and unwilling to cut up the only 

 tolerable one I had, this error appeared in the last edition of the 

 arrangement; but in the summer following Mr. Watt brought 

 me a series of specimens from the Isle of Wight from 1 to 10 

 inches high, which convinced me of my mistake, and soon after- 

 wards Mr. Turner informed me that on barren Limestone Hills 

 in Norfolk it grows equally diminutive ; though the blossom as 

 he observes, is as large as in the largest specimens, which he has 

 sometimes seen above two feet high. 



Little Throatwort, or Canterbury Bells. Clustered Bell-flower. 



Mountains and chalky pastures. [Near Pontefract, Mr. T. F. 

 Hill. — Chalk Hills, in Norfolk, Mr. Woodw. and Surry ; and 

 between Grantham and Wilham Common. St. On the Fife 



and Angus coast, not unfrequent. Mr, Browne.] 



P. July 



(3) Capsules covered by the reflected segments of t fie calyx* 

 hedera'cea.C. Leaves heart-shaped, 5-lobed, on leaf-stalks, smooth : 



stem feeble. 



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ox.v.2. 18-iV**- 



23. 1-Pet. Gaz. 51. 2-Fl. dan. 330. 



a foot 



Sterns^ thread-shaped, trailing, matted'together, in patches of 

 x>t diameter. Mr. Watt. Lower leaves heart or kidney- 

 shaped, nearly entire. Mr. Woodward. Leaves with 5 to 8 



teeth, but not properly lobed. Mr. Stackhqvse. The delicacy 



