CAMPANULACE^. 5 



involucre roundish or sub - rhomboidal, ovate, acute, entire or 

 crenulated or rarely with a few blunt teeth. 



In sandy fields, commons, and roadsides. Not uncommon in 

 England ; in Scotland confined to the West coast, where it reaches 

 North to Orkney and Shetland, the only locality on the East side 

 of the island being in Moray. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or annual. Summer 



and Autumn. 



Eoot a long tap-root, producing a rosette of radical leaves nar- 

 rowed towards the base, and almost always decayed before the 

 plant flowers. Stems numerous, 3 inches to 2 feet high, simple or 

 slightly branched, the lateral ones decumbent at the base. Stem- 

 leaves thickly disposed, J to f inch long. Peduncles (or rather the 

 leafless portion of the stem or branch below the flower-head) 2 to 6 

 inches long. Elower-heads ^ to 1 inch across. Elowers rather longer 

 than the involucre, lilac-blue, the very slender segments separate 

 nearly to the base of the corolla. Capsule globular-ovoid, concealed 

 under the mass of withered corollse through which the elongated 

 rather stiff sepals appear. Plant pale-green, with the leafy part of 

 the stem and leaves hispid ; the peduncles always, and the bracts of 

 the involucre usually glabrous. 



Annual Sheep' s-hit. 



French, Jasione de Montague. German, Berg Jasione. 



This little plant has so much the aspect of a Scabiosa, that it is often called 

 " Sheep's Scabious," and by Linnaeus was classed with the Compositse, 



GJENUS IIL—P H Y T E U M A. Unn. 



Calyx-limb 5-partite. Corolla cylindrical and curved upwards 

 in bud, divided almost to the base into 5 linear segments, which 

 remain long coherent at the summit, but are at last spreading. 

 Stamens 5 ; filaments dilated at the base ; anthers free. Style 

 filiform, hairy ; stigma cleft at the apex into 2 or 3 rather short 

 stigmatiferous lobes. Capsule ovoid, opening by 2 or 3 valves 

 at the sides, or at the base by longitudinal slits. 



Perennial herbs, often with enlarged root-fibres. Radical leaves 

 stalked ; stem-leaves smaller, sessile or sub-sessile. Elowers rather 

 small, blue, purple, or straw-colour, in heads or spikes. 



The name of this genus of plants seems to have been one adopted by Dioscorides, 

 and is said to have been derived from (jivrevii) (phuteioo), I plant or sow, from its great 

 increase and growth. 



