PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 289 



C. patula. Linn.Sp.Pl.232. mild v. 1.896. Fl. Br. 235. Engl. 



Bot. V. 1, t 42. Hook. Loud. t.5\. Fl. Dan. t.373. Purton 



r.3.342. 

 C. n. 698. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 309. 



C. esculentae facie, ramis et floribus patulis. Dill. Elth. 68. t. 58. 

 C. minor alba, sive purpurea. Ger. Em. 452. f. ? 



In pastures, borders of fields, and hedges, rare. 



On the outside of Buddon wood, Leicestershire. Mr. Woodward. 

 In many parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. Withering. 

 Near Holt, Norfolk. Rev. R. B.Francis. At Cobham, Surry. 

 Engl. Bot. In several parts of that county and Kent. Mr. Graves. 

 In many places about Alcester. Purton. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Root small, tapering, white. Stem erect, 2 feet high, leafy, having 

 about 5 angles, fringed with short deflexed hairs ; panicled and 

 spreading at the summit. Radical leaves stalked, spreading, 

 obovate, elliptical, or oblong, obtuse, bluntly crenate, roughish, 

 or fringed ; turning yellow, and withering when the flowers ap- 

 pear ; the stem-leaves are alternate, sessile, lanceolate or linear, 

 acute, less crenate, and rather smoother. Fl. of a fine blue, larger 

 than the preceding, more tapering at the lower part ; the limb 

 ribbed, gradually spreading. Segments of the calyx awl-shaped, 

 with one or more livid teeth on each side, towards the base. The 

 herbage, though bitter and milky, is often eaten by cattle. 



3. C. Rapunculus. Rampion Bell-flower. 



Leaves wavy, crenate, roughish ; radical ones elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate. Stem angular ; hairy below. Panicle compact. 

 Calyx entire. 



C. Rapunculus. Linn. Sp. PL 232. Willd.v. 1.896. Fl.Br. 236. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 283. Hook. Lond. t. 80. Fl. Dan. t. 855. 

 C. n. 699. Hall. Hist. r. 1. 310. 

 Rapunculus. Camer. Epit. 221. f. bad. Matih. Valgr. v. 1. 397./. 



much worse ; like a Linum. 

 R. esculentus. Bauh. Pin. 92. Raii Syn. 277. 

 Rapiintium parvum. Ger. Em. 453./. 

 Rapum sylvestre. Fuchs. Hist. 214 f. tc. 122. 

 Raponeoli. Brunf. Herb. v. 2. 84./. 



On banks, and about the borders of fields, not common. 



About Old Buckenham castle, Norfolk. Mr. Pitchford. In many 

 parts of Kent and Surry, as well as in other places, on a gravelly 

 soil 3 having formerly perhaps escaped from gardens. 



Biennial. July, August. 



Root spindle-shaped, white, milky, sweet, with a bitterish pun- 

 gency ; when cultivate^, milder. It was formerly eaten raw, or 

 variously dressed. Stem a yard high, leafy, angular, more or 



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