CLASS V. ORDER l.l CAMPANULA. 299 



English Botany, t. 1369.— English Flora, vol. i, p. 292.— Hooker, 

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



«. major. Whole plant, except the corolla, much larger, and nearly 

 smooth. 



Root with long creeping underground stems. Stem erect, sometimes 

 slightly branched, but mostly simple, from one to two feet high, or 

 more, obtusely angular, scattered over with reflexed hairs, nearly 

 smooth in the lower part, but hairy above. Leaves alternate, rough, 

 with rigid hairs, especially near and on the margins, coarsely and irre- 

 gularly crenated, or obtusely serrated, the mid-rib strong, and with 

 the branched lateral veins rougher below than above, the lower leaves 

 on footstalks, broadly lanceolate, with a heart-shaped base, the upper 

 ones sessile, ovate lanceolate, gradually diminishing to lanceolate and 

 linear bractea. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, of distant one-sided 

 flowers. Flowers large, drooping, on a short angular hairy stalk, 

 solitary from the axis, of linear or lanceolate bractea, which are 

 crenated below, simple above, rough, and with strongly ciliated margins, 

 Calyx hairy, its segments lanceolate, entire, spreading, or reflexed. 

 Corolla smaller than the last species, of a deep purplish blue, scattered 

 over with long soft hairs, especially on the margin of the spreading 

 acutely lanceolate segments, sometimes the hairs are absent, but 

 \\ithin near the bottom seldom wanting. Stamens half as long as the 

 corolla, dilated into an angular base, ciliated on the margin, and hairy 

 within, closing over the short tube of the corolla. 'I'he filaments 

 slender, short. Anthers long, linear, of two cells. Pistil about as 

 long as the corolla. Style hairy, thickened upwards, and scattered 

 over with small warty excrescences. Stigma three-cleft, recurved. 

 Capsule ovate, or roundish, angular, hairy, three celled, opening near 

 the base with three large roundish pores. 



Habitat. — Woods and fields; rare. Oxfordshire. — (B tiddlers Herb.) 

 On the magnesian limestone between Wentbridge and Darlington, 

 Yorkshire. — Mr. J. Backhouse. Blair in Athol, Scotland; and found 

 plentifully in corn fields two miles N. W. of Kirkcaldy, (where it is 

 considered a troublesome weed by the farmer). — Alexander Chambers, 

 Esq. Hooker. Castle Hill, on a sandy soil, Worksop, Nottingham- 

 shire ; and the variety k. major in clayey woods, in the vicinity of 

 Lincoln. — R. D. 

 Perennial; flowering in July and August. 



This species is readily distinguished from C. latifolia, by its lower 

 heart-shaped leaves, and its drooping one-sided flowers. The variety 

 a, major rivals in magnitude that of C. latifolia. It has, however, 

 otherwise the same marked characteristic difi'erence in its structure. 

 Some of ray specimens of it are a shining green, and almost without 

 any hairs upon them, especially in the lower part of the plant. 

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