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HAREBELL, CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA. Nat. Ord., Cam- 

 panulacece. Calyx ovoid, cut into five segments. Corolla bell-shaped, 

 with five broad and spreading lobes, pale blue or occasionally 

 white. Stamens five, free from corolla; filaments dilated at base; 

 anthers linear. Style one, clavate, pubescent ; stigmas filiform. Inflo- 

 rescence a raceme or panicle, few-flowered; pedicels slender. Koot- 

 leaves orbicular or cordate, crenate, soon withering away ; stem-leaves 

 entire, linear or linear-lanceolate. Plant glabrous. Open moorlands, 

 banks, roadsides, old walls, hiDy pasturage. July, August, September. 

 Perennial. 



GERMANDER SPEEDWELL, VERONICA CHAM^EDRYS. 

 Nat. Ord., Scrophulariacece. Calyx four-cleft. Corolla rnonopetalous, 

 irregular, four-cleft, lower segment much narrower than the others, 

 bright blue. Style capillary. Stamens two. Capsule two-celled, 

 ciliate. Inflorescence a raceme, many-flowered, axillary, one only 

 from each pair of leaves. Bracts linear. Leaves in pairs, nearly 

 sessile, ovate, serrate, hairy, wrinkled. Hedge-banks, woods. May, 

 June. Perennial. 



OX-EYE DAISY, CHRYSANTHEMUM LEUCANTHEMUM. Nat. 

 Ord., Composite. Heads of flowers large, those of the disk yellow, 

 the ray white. Flower-heads solitary, on long terminal peduncles. 

 Involucre hemispherical ; bracts imbricate, membranaceous at their 

 edges, purple or brown margins. Stems slightly branching, one to 

 two feet high, smooth, erect. Leaves alternate : radical leaves obovate, 

 stalked, coarsely serrate; stem -leaves sessile, narrow, few coarse 

 serrations, sub-pinnatifid. Dry pastures, railway banks. June, July, 

 Perennial. 



COWSLIP, or PAIGLE, PRIMULA VERIS. Nat. Ord.. 

 Primulacea:. Calyx five-toothed, the teeth broad and obtuse, tubular, 

 campanulate, pale yellowish - green. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube 

 cylindrical, the limb deeply five-lobed, each lobe notched, yellow, 

 spotted at base with orange. Stamens five. Ovary one-celled. Style 

 one, filiform ; stigma capitate. Flower-stalks rising above the leaves, 

 and bearing the flowers in an umbel ; outer flowers pendulous. Stem 

 cylindrical, downy. Leaves all radical; petioles winged. Meadows 

 and banks. April, May. Perennial. 



BUSH VETCH, VICIA SEPTUM. Nat. Ord., Leguminosoe. 

 Calyx, five sepals, gibbous at base, calyx-teeth unequal. Corolla 

 of five petals, irregular, papilionaceous, dull purple. Stamens ten. 



