jds OF TREES ANP PLANTS. 



flowers in June and July. Under culture it makes a handfome 

 appearance with its pendulous flowers,, white, tinged with pur- 

 ple, in fpikes, in a lateral feries ; often rifmg to the height of 

 five or fix feet, with flowers half-way down. It varies in its co- 

 lour in the woods, fometimes of a. pure white, but it does not 

 hold it under culture. 



1 6. The Icffer Throat-wort, or' Canterbury Bells (f). In limeftone- 

 paftures, and on dry hedge-banks. In a field by the lime-kills at 

 Wall, near C/jolferford-bridge. In the wood-banks at Ncthcr-War- 

 don, near Hexham. On the banks of the Tyne, and in the mea- 

 dows about By<well. Its ufual height is from a foot and a half to 

 two feet. Under culture it rifes to three feet high, and fometimes 

 higher. The flowers are of a deep, purple, numerous in the alee 

 of the leaves, and on the tops of the ftalks and branches ; a fingle 

 plant fometimes having twenty-nine flowers on the top. It 

 flowers in June and July. - 



17. Small, fimple-Jlalked, Mountain Throativort, or Canterbury-Bells, 

 'with 'very Jhort, oblong leaves fg). In Crag-Cofe, near Barwesford. 

 It is a pretty variety of the former. It is a foot high, and fome- 

 times lefs. It has no radical leaves that I can obferve. Thofe 

 on the flalk are very frnall, and it is not branched. The flowers 

 Hand in an upright clufter on the top, compact and neat. It 



p. 805. Hift. Oxan. p. 459, Raj. Syn. Hi. p. 276. Dill. Gifl". p. ii6. Tourn. Inft. p. 109. 

 Rupp. Flo. Jen. p. 23. Trachelium, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 185. Campanula foliis afpe- 

 ris, imis cordatis, reliquis Jonge acuminatis,. ferratis, calycibus hirtis, ala multifiora. Halt. 

 Helv. p. 49. 



(f) Campanula pratenfis, flore conglomerate. C. B. Pin. p. 94. Raj. Syn. p. 277. 

 Trachelium pratenfe flore conglomerato. Hift. Oxen. ii. p. 401. f. 5. Tab. 4. f. 43. Cam. 

 panula floribus feflilibus congeftis, latioribus foliis infidentibus. Hall. Helv. p. 492. 



(s) Trachelium oblongo folio alpinum. Boccone. t. 98. p. 70. 



flowers 



