CAMPANULA 325 



On all the downs bordering on the Vale of the White Horse, 

 Bicheno. Wantage, Whitwell. Railway bank, Denchworth, Wait. 

 Blewburton Camp. Pusey. Letcombe. Wittenham. Lowbury. 



3. Pang. Streatley, Pamplin. East Ilsley. Compton. Moulsford. 



Lowbury. Pangbourn. Sulham. Basildon, &c. Plentiful on 

 the Chalk. 



4. Kennet. Beedon. Catmore. Ilsley Downs, locally common, 



W. M. Rogers. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. Lambourn Downs. 

 Farnborough. WooUey. West Ilsley. 



5. Loddon. Meadows by the river between Marlow and Bisham 



Wood, very abundant. Also very fine in the wood to the right 

 of the Maidenhead road, on the first ascent, Mill. Windsor, 

 Bolton King. Near Wargrave, Stanton. Wargrave, Melvill. 

 Hurley, &c. 

 . The var. nana, C. Bailey, is only a state caused by gi'owing in very 

 dry soil, exposed to the full force of the wind. A specimen brought to 

 a garden developed in a single season into a large plant with several 

 flowers. In damp meadows and in ditches on wood-borders a large 

 form occurs, which is probably the C. speciosa, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. ii. 

 957. A white-flowered form has been noticed near Hendred. 

 Campanula glomerata is found in all the bordering counties. 



C. Trachelium, Linn. Sp. PI. 166 ^1753. Kettle-leaved Bell-Jlower, Canter' 



bury Bells. 

 Trachelium vulgare, Clusius. T. majus, Ger. Em. 448. 

 Top. Bot. 265. Syme, E. B. vi. 9, t. 867. Nyman, 478. Fl. Oxf. 187. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods, thickets, hedges. Local and rather rare. 



P. July-August. 

 First record. ' Canterbury Bells, No. i & 2, thease grow in Merley wood,' 



MS. in Lyte's Herball, 1660. C. trachelium, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. 



Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Merley Wood, MS. in Lyte. Wytham. Appleton. 



2. Ock. Tubney, Walker. Radley Wood. Bagley. 



3. Pang. In Beech Wood and Park Coppice, Hampstead Norris. 



In a hedgerow near Unwell Farm and -many other places, but 

 not very common, Lonsley in Russell's Cat. 1839. Sandy Lane. 

 Langley Wood, W. M. Rogers. Sulham, Tufnail. Ashampstead. 

 Ashridge Wood. Unwell Wood. Tilehurst. Pangbourn. 

 Tidmarsh. 



4. Kennet. Beedon Wood. Catmore, W. M. Rogers. Weston, 



Osmond. Eiever Wood. Inkpen. Mortimer. Padworth. 



5. Loddon. Frequent in woods about Marlow, Mill. About Park 



Place, Stanton. Arborfield, Tayler. Wargrave. Ashley Hill. 

 Cookham. 



