CLASS V. ORDER I.~| CAMPANULA. 293 



inches long, of numerous yellowish green flowers, each having at its 

 base a linear bractea shorter than the flowers, and hid amongst them, 

 except a few at the base of the spike, which are long and spreading. 

 Calyx of five awl-shaped spreading segments. Corolla wheel -shaped, 

 with a very short tube, the limb of five deep narrow linear long spread- 

 ing segments, of a yellowish green colour. Stamens five from the 

 bottom of the tube of the corolla, with slender awl-shaped filaments, 

 and long linear two celled anthers. Style much longer than the 

 stamens, somewhat hairy above. Stigma two or three cleft, reflexed. 

 Capsule oblong, angular, crowned by the persistent calyx, of two cells, 

 opening laterally. Seeds small, numerous, angular, attached to a 

 central placenta. 



Habitat. Woods, thickets, hedges and fields, recently cleared of 

 wood in several stations about Mayn'eld and Waldon, Sussex. Mr. 

 Borrer. First detected in the former place by the Rev. Ralph Price, 

 in 1825. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



This Phyteuma is mentioned by Parkinson as growing " in divers 

 places of this land." It was formerly grown as an esculent vegetable, 

 and whether a native or not, is somewhat doubtful; it may have 

 escaped from gardens, and now become naturalized. Its growth is 

 limited to a small circuit, but it has probably as great a claim to rank 

 amongst the plants of our Flora, as some others. It is not uncommon 

 on the continent in woods and mountain pastures. 



GENUS XXXII. CAMPAN'ULA LINN. Bell-flower. 

 Nat. Ord. CAMPANULA 'CE.33. Juss. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla bell-shaped, or wheel-shaped, 

 with five larger or smaller segments, the mouth of the tube closed 

 with the dilated base of the filaments. Anthers free. Stigma 

 two to five-cleft. Capsule from two to five celled, opening on the 

 side, rarely at the extremity. Named from the shape of the 

 corolla, Campana, a bell. 

 * Flowers in panicles, or racemes. Capsule opening by lateral pores. 



1. C. rotundifo'lia, Linn. (Fig. 367.) round-leaved- Bell-flower, or 

 Hare-bell. Smooth root leaves sub-rotundate heart-shaped at the 

 base, crenated petiolated those of the stem lanceolate and crenated in 

 the lower part, linear and entire above ; flowers drooping ; segments of 

 the calyx subulate, simple. 



