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filaments broad at the base ; stigma 2 5 cleft ; capsule 

 2 5 celled, opening by pores at the side, rarely near 

 the top. (Name from the Latin campana, a bell.) 



2. PHYTEUMA (Rampion). Corolla* wheel-shaped, 

 with 5 deep lobes ; filaments broad at the base ; stigma 

 2 3 cleft ; capsule 2 3 celled, bursting at the side. 

 (Name from the Greek phyton, a plant.) 



3. JASION (Sheep's Scabious). Corolla wheel-shaped, 

 with 5 long narrow segments ; anthers united at the 

 base ; stigma 2-cleft ; capsule 2-celled, opening at the 

 top ; flowers in heads. (Name of uncertain origin.) 



1. CAMPANULA (Bell-flower). 



1. C. rotundifolia (Hair-bell). Smooth ; root-leaves 

 roundish kidney-shaped, notched, stalked, very soon 

 withering ; stem-leaves very narrow, tapering. Heaths 

 and dry meadows, abundant. Flowers light blue or 

 rarely white. The name Hair-bell is frequently, though 

 not correctly, given to the Wild Hyacinth or Blue-bell 

 (Agr aphis nutans, or Hyacinthus non-scriptus), a plant 

 with a thick juicy flower-stalk ; but when applied to this 

 Campanula is most appropriate, its stalks being exceed- 

 ingly slender and wiry. The specific name, rotundifolia 

 (round-leaved), is far from being descriptive of the leaves 

 which accompany the flower, as they are long and narrow, 

 but is peculiarly applicable to the root leaves, as they 

 appear in winter or early spring, at which season Linnseus 

 is reported to have observed them on the steps of the 

 university at Upsal. Fl. July September. Perennial. 



2. C. Trachelium (Nettled-leaved Bell-flower). Lower 

 leaves stalked, heart-shaped ; upper nearly sessile, taper- 

 ing to a sharp point, all strongly serrated and bristly ; 

 flowers in axillary clusters of 2 3. Woods and hedges, 



not unfrequent. A remarkably rough plant, 2 3 feet 

 high, with leaves very like those of the nettle, and large, 

 deep blue, bell-shaped flowers, the stalks of which are 

 recurved when in fruit. Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



