PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 293 



Trachelium minus. Ger. Em. 449./. 



T. alpinum, floribus conglomeratis. Harm. Parad. 235. t. 235. 



Rapunculus calyculatus. Barrel. Ic. i. 523./. 3. 



Gentiana coUina. fFith. 282. t. W.f. 8. From the author. 



In dry open chalky pastures. » 



Perennial. Jultj, August. 



Root rather woody, with long fibres. Stem from 1 to 18 inches 

 high, never branched unless injured, erect^ straight, angular, 

 hoary with short deflexed hairs. Radical and lower stem-leaves 

 oblong-heart-shaped, on long stalks ; upper ones more acute, 

 ovate, sessile, clasping the stem ; all crenate, hoary all over 

 with short close hairs ; paler at the back. Fl. of a purplish, 

 deep, but rich, blue, most of them in a dense terminal head, 

 subtended by 2 broad, concave, pointed, hoary bracteas ■ a few 

 occasionally, solitary or in pairs, sessile from the bosoms of the 

 upper leaves. Col. simply 5-cleft, hoary. Cor. rather cylindri- 

 cal, hairy, about one third the size of the last. 



In a cultivated state the herbage becomes over luxuriant, and less 

 hoary ; i\\^Jlowers paler, more numeroiis, but far less handsome. 



Such is the case with many of the true chalk-country plants. 



9. C. hyhrida. Corn Bell-flower. 



Stem often branched from the base, straight. Leaves oblong, 

 crenate, wavy. Corolla widely spreading, shorter, than 

 the calyx. Capsule prismatic. 



C.hybrida. Linn. Sp. PL 239. mild. v.\.0]3. Fl. Dr. 239. Engl. 

 Bot.v.6.t.375. 



C. n. 704. Hall. Hist. r. 1.31 1 . 



C. arvensis erecta. Rail Syn. 278. Moris, v. 2. 457. sect. 5. t. 2. 



Speculum Veneris mmus. Ger. Em. 139./. 



Onobrychis altera Belgarum et Dodonaei. Lob. Ic. 418./. 



In dry or chalky corn-fields. 



Annual. August. 



Root small, tapering. Herb barely a span high, pale greyish green, 

 rough with prominent, rigid, minute hairs, especially the stem, 

 and the undulating margins of the oval sessile leaves. Fl. few, 

 terminal, solitary, sessile. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, 

 spreading, rough. Cor. scarcely half their length, almost wheel- 

 shaped, with 5 plaits, deep blue, with a pale centre. Germen 

 much lengthened after impregnation, becoming a long triangu- 

 lar, downy capsule, opening towards the summit by 3 lateral 

 pores. 



10. C. hederacea. Ivy-leaved Bell-flower. 



Stem flaccid, much branched, procumbent. Leaves stalked, 

 smooth, heart-shapetl, with angular iobe^. 



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