298 CAMPANULA. I CLASS V. ORDER I. 



English Botany, t. 302. English Flora, vol. i. p. 291 .Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 117. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 136. 



Root somewhat fleshy, with long branched fibres, exuding when 

 broken an acrid milky fluid like the whole plant. Stem from two to 

 three or four feet high, erect, simple, roundish, or obscurely angular 

 smooth, or scattered over more or less profusely with soft hairs, leafy 

 the leaves alternate, large, lanceolate, with a tapering point, the mar- 

 gins coarsely and doubly or irregularly serrated, the teeth blunt, the 

 lower ones on short footstalks, the upper nearly sessile, roughish, with 

 spreading hairs, especially on the under side along the mid-rib, and 

 lateral branched veins. Inflorescence a long terminal raceme, or occa- 

 sionally a slight branched panicle of numerous large axillary flowers, 

 arising single, or sometimes the lower ones of the raceme double, on a 

 branched slender erect stalk, which is somewhat angular, roughish 

 generally without, but sometimes there is a small lanceolate scale upon 

 it, the floral leaves or bractea in the lower part lanceolate, serrated, 

 becoming narrower upwards, at length linear and entire. Calyx 

 erect, of five lanceolate or somewhat ovate-lanceolate segments, with 

 entire or serrated margins, smooth, or scattered over with hairs, and 

 the margins ciliated. Corolla large, deep blue, erect, or slightly 

 drooping, the segments lanceolate, reflexed. Stamens about one-third 

 the length of the corolla, downy, with a broad dilated valve at the 

 base, closing over the mouth of the short tube of the corolla. Anthers 

 long, linear, very downy. Pistil nearly as long as the corolla, downy, 

 thickening upwards. Stigma deeply three-cleft- Capsule angular, 

 mostly smooth, crowned by the persistent calyx, three celled, opening 

 near the top with oval lateral pores. Seeds numerous. 



Habitat. Moist woods, and shady places ; not very common. In 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, and the North of Eng- 

 land ; more frequent in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire ; 

 but in the woods and shady glens of Scotland very frequent ; and in 

 woods by the river Barrow, above New Ross, Ireland. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



The Giant Bell-flower is the largest and most ornamental of our 

 species, having a very stately and noble appearance, raising its gay 

 head far above its companions in its native abode : in the close shady 

 woods, as well as by cultivation, the flowers become paler, sometimes 

 white, and of a pinkish tinge. It is well calculated to ornament shady 

 walks, plantations, and groves, but does not flourish so well in an open 

 situation. 



6. C. rapunculoi'des, Linn. (Fig. 372.) creeping Bell-flower. Stem 

 slightly branched, obtusely angular; leaves cordate-lanceolate, un- 

 equally crenated, hairy ; raceme of drooping stalked axillary unilateral 

 flowers ; segments of the calyx hairy, lanceolate, spreading. 



