294 CAMPANULA. l^LASS v. order i, 



English Botany, t. 866.— English Flora, vol. i. p. 288.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 116. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 136. 



Root long, slender, branched, somewhat wiry. Stems mostly nu- 

 merous, erect, or bent at the base, and sometimes sending out short 

 runners from the bottom, slender, round, smooth, as is the whole plant, 

 either simple or slightly branched , mostly very leafy, from one to two 

 feet high ; the root leaves generally very numerous, but soon withering, 

 roundish, or oblong, with a heart-shaped base, the margins crenated 

 and rough, like those of the stem, with a minutely serrated cartilaginous 

 edge, the footstalks long and slender, the leaves of the stem in the 

 lower part on footstalks also, oblong-lanceolate, crenated, becoming 

 lanceolate, above sessile, linear, and entire on the margin, they are very 

 variable in length and numbers, alternate. Inflorescence a terminal 

 scarcely branched panicle, of a few gracefully drooping sky blue 

 flowers, on slender stalks of variable lengths, each having at its base 

 an awl-shaped bractea, and not unfrequenily one or two small ones on 

 the stalk. Calyx in live, awl-shaped, entire spreading segments. 

 Corolla about three times as long, bell-shaped, with a short tube, the 

 limb of five broad acute spreading segments. Stamens half as long as 

 the corolla. The filaments broadly dilated at the base with a fringed 

 margin, the upper part slender, smooth, spreading, while the base 

 forms valves which converge together and completely close up the 

 mouth of the tube. Anthers oblong, of two cells, yellow. Style as 

 long as the corolla. Stigma three-cleft, hairy. Capsule roundish, 

 oblong, with ten ribs, crowned by the persistent calyx, of three valves, 

 opening on the side. Seech small, numerous. 



Habitat. — Dry hills, pastures, banks, walls, &c. ; common. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



/3. hirla, De Cand. Leaves and stem in the lower part of the 

 plant, hairy. 



y. lancifolia, De Cand. Leaves in the lower part of the stem, two 

 inches long, and three or four lines wide, above narrower and shorter. 



These varieties we have occasionally met with. The first on very 

 dry sandy banks, and old walls. It is seldom more than six inches 

 high, while the variety lancifolia grows in a damp shady situation, 

 and is smooth, stout, and mostly two feet high, with but few ovate root 

 leaves, those of the stem very long, and often much crowded. 



No one who has made the collecting of plants either a part of his 

 amusement or study, will turn over the collection of his herbarium, 

 without almost every specimen reminding him of the circumstances 

 under which it was gathered— nay, even the spot where, perhaps, the 



" Stranger's, whose steps have reached this solitude, 

 Know that this lonely spot was ilcnr (o one 

 Devoted with no iinr('f|uitoil zeal 

 To Nature : — " 



