ISO FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



C. petreta L. Plant erect, covered with down. Leaves and calyx white- 

 felted beneath. Flowers yellowish-white almost sessile, in heads with large leafy 

 bracts. Lower leaves ovate or oblong, cordate at base, long petioled. 



Rocks in the Maritime Alps, rare. July-August. 



C. RapuncuIusL. Rampion Campanula. Biennial, 1-3 ft. high, stems wiry, 

 erect. Lower leaves oblong, crenate petioled ; upper leaves linear-lanceolate. 

 Calyx segments linear-setaceous. Flowers rather small, pale blue or nearly 

 white (as e.g. about Hyeres), erect on long narrow spikes. 



Woods, road-sides, and thickets, common. May-July. 



C. persicifolia L. Plant glabrous and shining, about 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 leathery, radical ones sessile, spathulate-lanceolate ; cauline ones linear-oblong 

 finely serrate. Calyx segments triangular-lanceolate, acute. Flowers large, 

 2-6 in a simple head, blue or rarely white. 



Mountain woods as at La Sainte-Baume, Sollies-Toucas, St. Martin Ve'subie, 

 etc. May-August. 



C. patuIaL. Spreading Campanula. An erect slender biennial, about a foot 

 high, slightly hairy, with spreading branches. Root-leaves obovate or oblong, 

 stalked ; stem-leaves few, lanceolate or linear, almost entire. Flowers few, 

 rather larger than in C. rotundifolia, in a spreading panicle ; corolla more 

 open and more purplish in colour and divided to the middle. 



Bushy pastures and thickets in the lower Maritime Alps. May-July. 



C. rotundifolia L. Harebell. A slender perennial, with heart-shaped 

 root-leaves which usually die away at flowering time; stem-leaves linear or 

 lanceolate, entire. Corolla bell-shaped, with five broad lobes shorter than the 

 tube, very variable in size and sometimes in shape, in a branched loose panicle. 



Stony hill-sides and dry thickets in the mountains ; scarce in the south. May- 

 July- 



C. macrorrhiza y. Gay. A very variable species resembling the Harebell, 

 but known by its woody root-stock, its broad lower stem-leaves, and its upright 

 buds and capsules ; and the calyx-teeth are very often reflexed. 



Cliffs and rocks chiefly in the mountain region, and very rare in the Var. May- 

 August. 



C. Erinus L. A small annual weed. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, toothed. 

 Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx, very small, almost sessile, blue or rarely 

 white. 



Rocks, old walls, sandy road-sides, and waste places, common near the coast 

 and in the Olive region. April-June. 



C. Trachelium L. Nettle-leaved Campanula. Another variable species, 

 2-3 ft. high, sometimes approaching in appearance small specimens of C. lati = 

 folia, which is found in the Maritime Alps. Lower leaves on long stalks, 

 cordate and coarsely toothed ; upper ones small and ovate-lanceolate. Flowers 

 large, 2 or 3 together in short leafy racemes in the upper axils. Calyx segments 

 stiffly hairy. 



Shady places in the mountain region and sometimes in valleys near the coast. 

 June-August. 



C. rapunculoides L. Creeping Campanula. Root-stock creeping. Stem 

 erect, 1-3 ft. high. Lower leaves on long stalks, heart-shaped, upper ones 

 small, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers drooping, smaller than in C. Trachelium and 

 more purplish-blue, forming very long terminal and often unilateral racemes. 

 Capsules nearly globular. Calyx-teeth linear or linear-lanceolate. 



Fields, banks, and uncultivated places. June-August. 



C. bononiensis L. (Plate XX). A tall spiky species with very leafy and 

 almost tomentose stem. Leaves very downy beneath, lower ones shortly 

 stalked, cordate ; upper ones sessile and becoming narrower. Flowers small, 

 violet-blue, very shortly stalked, in clusters at junction of the bracts and stem, 



