GAMOPETAL^ iii 



In the British Isles this plant is found in England 

 and Scotland, and is apparently indigenous in the 

 North Midlands, and North of England. It occurs 

 in native stations in dingles, as in Shropshire, where 

 I have found it with Impatiens noli-fue-tangere, or 

 Touch-me-not Balsam, and Elecampane. Every- 

 where, however, it is a rare plant. 



In a wild state it is found in woods and copses, 

 and streams, and in bushy hilly places, frequently 

 on a chalky soil. When not native it is found as an 

 escape from the garden, where it is a favourite, as an 

 old-fashioned garden flower. I have found it by the 

 wayside, and in waste places as a casual. 



The habit is erect. The stem may be smooth, or 

 downy, glandular above, and is angular, hollow, and 

 leafy. The rootstock is short and creeping. The 

 pinnate radical leaves form a dense tuft, the stalk 

 being 6 in. long, with as many as twenty-one leaflets, 

 which are lance-shaped, entire, smooth, and light 

 green in colour. 



The alternate stem-leaves are also pinnate, but 

 smaller, with about eight pairs of opposite leaflets 

 and a terminal one, stalkless, ovate, or oblong to 

 lance-shaped, acute. 



The flowers are blue or white, numerous, pendulous, 

 terminal, in a corymb or panicle. The calyx is bell- 

 shaped with five oblong, acute lobes. The corolla is 

 bell-shaped with spreading lobes, more or less acute, 

 the tube short, broad and open, the limb five-cleft. 

 The stamens are oblique, the anther-stalks dilated 



