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FLOWERS OF ROCKS, WALLS, ETC. 



RAMPION (Campanula Rapunculus, L.) 



Lactuca, Pliny, is from lac, 

 milk, in allusion to the milky 

 juice it secretes. Wall Lettuce 

 is the only name by which it 

 is known. 



The eagle was said to 

 pluck the Wild Lettuce, with 

 the juice of which it smoan-d 

 its eyes. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHAR- 

 ACTERS : 



183. Lactuca muratis,Ga.ertn. 

 Stem slender, branched, 

 smooth, leaves lyrate, dentate, 

 terminal lobe larger, 3-angular, 

 panicle diffuse, flowerheads yel- 

 low, 5 florets, equal, fruit black, 

 compressed beak shorter, pap- 

 pus pilose. 



Rampion (Campanula 

 Rapunculus, L.) 



This plant is known entirely 

 from its distribution at the pre- 

 sent day in the North Temp- 

 erate Zone, where it ranges 

 from Denmark southward (ex- 

 cept in Greece), in Europe 

 generally, N. Africa, W. Siberia. 

 In Great Britain, Rampion is 

 hardly native in every county in 

 which it is found, but it occurs 

 in W. Cornwall, S. Somerset, 

 N. Hants, W. Sussex, the 

 Thames except in East Kent, 

 Oxford, E. Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 Cambridge, Northampton, Here- 

 ford, Worcester, Warwick, Staf- 

 ford, Carnarvon, Denbigh, 

 Anglesea, Notts, S.E. Yorks, 



