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lilac, purple at the base, or wholly purple. lullorescence with the 

 lowest flowers opening first, but the terminal flower, although not 

 first, frequently expands before 6 or 6 of the uppermost lateral 

 flowers. In very luxuriant specimens, flowers are also developed 

 from the axils of the 2 minute bracteoles on the peduncle. Calyx- 

 tube with only a few hairs towards the base ; segments much longer 

 than the tube, glabrous, ciliated, and frequently callously serrate 

 on the marii'ins. Leaves rather soft. 



The form with the calyx-tube hispid I have not seen from 

 Britain. 



Giant Bell-fiower. 



French, Gatnpanula d, Larges Feuilles. Gei-man, Breiibldttriye Glockenhluine. 



The beauty of this plant often procures for it a place in our gardens ; and we 

 remember Sir Walter Scott's description of it as the " throat- wort with its azure bell " 

 adorning the banks of the Gx-eta. 



SPECIES IV— CAMPANULA RAPUNCULIOIDES. Linn. 



Plate DCCCLXIX. 



Reich. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDC. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No.. 2879. 



Rootstock elongated, slender, extensively creeping, sending 

 down fleshy fibres, and emitting very long creeping subterranean 

 stolons. Stems rather stout, erect, puberulent, simple or very 

 slightly branched. Radical leaves on long stalks, ovate, cordate ; 

 stem-leaves similar ; the lower ones sub-cordate ; the succeeding 

 ones with short winged petioles ; the upper ones sessile and lance- 

 olate ; all acute, irregularly doubly-crenate or crenate-serrate, 

 slightly pubescent on the veins, and puberulent. Inflorescence a 

 raceme, indefinite, the lowest flowers of the raceme opening first, 

 the others succeeding in regular order. Plowers drooping, shortly 

 stalked, 1 terminal, and all the rest axillary. Peduncles 1-flow- 

 ered, with 2 small strapshaped bracteoles above the middle. 

 Calyx-tube puberulent ; segments strapshaped, reflexed soon after 

 flowering. Corolla widely campanulate, with the segments slightly 

 recurved, rather more than one-third the length of the whole 

 corolla, ovate, sub-acute. Stigmas 3. Capsule nodding, opening 

 by pores at the base of the calyx-tube. 



A weed in cultivated fields, and said also to occur in woods and 

 shady pljaces. Rare and local. I have only seen it in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Balwearei, near Kirkcaldy, Pifeshire, where it is a 

 troublesome weed ; it is reported also from the counties of Bedford, 



