CLASS V. ORDER 1. ] CAMPANULA. 301 



finely crenated, the lower ones petiolated, the upper sessile; flowers 

 sessile, in axillary and terminal clusters. 



English Botany, t. 90. English Flora, vol. i. p. 293. Hooker, 

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



0. farinosa. Stem and under-side of the leaves thickly clothed 

 with white woolly hairs. C. glomerata, j3. salvia folia, Wahl. Sched. 

 C. farinosa, Andrez. C. petrea, Schmidt and De Cand. Fl. Franc. 

 C. aggregata, . farinosa, Reicheub 1. c. f. 757 759. 



j. aggregata. Green lea\es of the stem with a broad petiole, 

 flowers large. C. aggregata, Willd. supplt. Reicheub. ic. 6. f. 760, 

 761. 



J. speciosa. Green leaves all ovate, heart-shaped at the base, flowers 

 large. C. speciosa. Hornan. hafer. Reicheub. ic. 6. f. 762. 



s. elliptica. Leaves all rounded at the base, or attenuated into a 

 footstalk, accuminated at the apex. C. elliptica. Reicheub, ic. 6. f. - 

 763, 764. 



. lancifolia. Leaves all lanceolate, the lower ones petiolated, the 

 margins waved and irregularly crenated, slightly downy. 



n. attenuata. Leaves all lanceolate, with a long attenuated point, 

 minutely downy, the lower ones on a short broad petiole. 



Root of strong woody fibres. Stem erect, from six to twenty inches 

 high, angular, simple sometimes, but rarely branched, of a purplish 

 colour, and more or less clothed with hairs, sometimes smooth, at others 

 woolly, leafy. The leaves alternate, those arising from the root on 

 long footstalks of variable shapes, usually oblong lanceolate, with a 

 heart-shaped base, the upper oiies mostly sessile, or with short foot- 

 stalks, oblong lanceolate, partly embracing the stem at the base, paler 

 beneath, and generally more hairy than the upper side, the margins 

 finely crenated, the upper ones sometimes entire, the hairiness is 

 extremely variable, the upper side is sometimes quite or nearly smooth, 

 as well as the under, at others the under side alone clothed with hairi- 

 ness, and not unfrequent, both soft, with spreading hairs. Inflorescence 

 a terminal spike, with axillary clusters of sessile flowers from the 

 bottom of the upper leaves, large, erect, of a fine blue colour, each 

 flower having at its base a bractea of greater or less size, mostly 

 broadly ovate, acute. Calyx of five narrow lanceolate segments, erect 

 and downy. Corolla large, erect, with five acute segments, quite 

 smooth, or scattered over with simple pale hairs, longer, and often more 

 numerous on the inside than out. Stamens short, dilated into an ovate 

 valve at the base, hairy, especially within and on the margins, closing 

 over the base of the erect simple downy style, which is not so long as 

 the corolla. Stigma two or three cleft, downy, recurved. Capsule 

 ovate, angular, hairy. 



Habitat. Dry pastures, especially of a clayey or chalky soil; not 



