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considerable article of consumption during its season, Ijoiled into a 

 kind of soup, with a little vermicelli, or eaten raw with bread. 



4. C. persici'folia, Linn. (Fig. 370.) Peach-leaved Bell-Jlower. 

 Smooth stem, round, few flowered ; root leaves obovate stalked ; those 

 of the stem sessile, linear, lanceolate, remotely serrated; raceme few 

 flowered ; segments of the calyx lanceolate, entire ; corolla large, 

 spreading. 



English Flora, vol. i. p. 291.— English Botany, Suppt. t. 2773.— 

 Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 116. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 136. 



Hoot somewhat creeping, slender, knotted, and fibrous above. The 

 whole plant destitute of hairs. Stem erect, generally simple, from one 

 to two feet high, shining, somewhat angular. Leaves alternate, 

 mostly distant on the stem, those arising from the base of the stem and 

 root ovate-oblong, somewhat decurrent, on a long footstalk, the 

 margins crenated, or bluntly serrated, shortly withering, the leaves of 

 the stem narrow, linear, lanceolate, those on the lower part on foot- 

 stalks, the upper sessile, all with a strong mid-rib, and numerous 

 minute branched veins, the margins remotely and more or less 

 distinctly serrated. Inflorescence a terminal, few flowered, raceme. 

 Flotvers from the axis of a lanceolate bractea on a short footstalk. 

 Calyx of five spreading lanceolate segments. Corolla large, of a fine 

 purplish blue colour, wide spreading, the segments large, broad, 

 acutely pointed. Stamens with a broadly, dilated, obovate, hairy base, 

 closing over the mouth of the short tube of the corolla, slender 

 and smooth above. Anthers long, linear, hairy, of two cells, yellow. 

 Pistil as long as the corolla. Style smooth. Stigma long, hairy, 

 deeply three-cleft, and spreading. Capsule obovate, angular, crowned 

 by the persistent calyx, of three cells, opening near the top of the sides 

 with a circular opening, the valve curling upwards. Seeds numerous, 

 ovate. 



Habitat. — Woods, near Cullen, Scotland, apparently indigenous. — 

 Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial ; flowering in July. 



We have not been able to obtain wild native specimens of this plant ; 

 it is frequent on the continent, and its claim to the rank of one of our 

 indigenous species is very doubtful, it is frequently cultivated as a 

 border flower, and is very ornamental, its flowers mostly becoming 

 double, and often pure white ; and from its resemblance to a small 

 rose, it is called in some parts of the country the " rose without a 

 thorn." 



5. C. latifo'lia, Linn. (Fig. 371.) Giant Bell-Jtower. Stem simple, 

 rounded; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, coarsely and doubly 

 serrated, hairy, raceme of erect stalked axillary flowers ; segments of 

 the calyx smooth, lanceolate, erect. 



