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and transparency of this elegant little plant sufficiently separate 

 it from all our other species, Bloss. pale blue. 



Ivy-leaved Bell-flower. Moist shady places* [About springs 

 and rivulets in Cornwall, very frequent* Mr. Watt. Woods 

 in Oxfordshire. Mr. Newberry. Roxborough Common, near 

 Plymouth, plentiful. Mr. Knappe.] P. May — Aug. 



(4) Capsules prism-shaped. 



C. Stem stiff and straight, somewhat branched at the base: hy'brida. 



leaves oblong, scolloped: cups incorporated, and 

 longer than the blossom. 



E. hot. 373-Ger. em. ±39. 2-Park. 1331. 2-H. ox. v. 2. 22. 



Calyx segments permanent, crowning the ripe capsule. Mr. 

 Woodward. Bloss. purple; deeply divided. The great length 

 Of the capsule, and the segments of the calyx reaching above the 

 top of the blossom, at once distinguish this from every other 

 British Campanula. 



Lesser Venus Looking Glass. Codded Corn Violet* Corn Bell* 



flower. Chalky cornfields. [Bury and elsewhere in Suffolk, in 

 chalky cornfields. Mr. Woodward.] A. July.i 



PHYTEU'MA. Bloss. wheel-shaped, with 5 divi- 

 sions; segments strap-shaped: summits 2 or 

 3-cleft: caps, beneath, 2 or 3-celled; a hole 

 opening at the side of each. 



P. Flowers in a roundish head: floral -leaves spear-strap- orbicularis. 



shaped, fringed. 



Dicks, h. s.-E. hot. l±2-Jacq. austr. 437-C*/. ecphr. 224- 



Barr. 525~Riv. mon. 109. l-H. ox. v. 5. 47-G<?r. em. 



455. 5. 



About a foot high. Root-leaves heart-spear-shaped. Blqss. 

 blue. 



Round-headed Rampion. Chalky pastures. Downs of Sussex 

 ^d Hampshire. Near Leatherhead. P. July, Aug. 



* It appears that Linnaeus had good reason for considering this as a 

 plant having no very permanent character, for Mr. Robson, having sown 



«t in his garden, it produced plenty of luxuriant plants which ripened 

 their seeds ; but these seeds the following year produced plants, the 

 greater number of which wereC speculum, and the rest a sort ofinterme- 

 diatc plant vt ith sinal ier tiowers than the latter, but larger than the tqrmcr. % 



+ Phalawa exsoleta feeds upon the dirierent species of Campanula. 



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