294 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Phyteuma. 



C. hederacea. Linn. Sp. PI. 240. TVilld. v. I. 916. Fl. Br. 239. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 73. Hook. Scot. 75. Load. t. 93. Dicks. Dr. 



PI. 56. H. Sicc.fasc. 10. 9. H. Dan. t. 330. bad. 

 C. Cymbalarise foliis. Rail Syn. 277. Ger. Em. 452. /. Baufi. 



Prodr. 34. Moris, v. 2. 456. sect. 5. t. 2. f. 18. Pluk. Phyt. 



t.23.f.l. 

 C. folio hederaceo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 797./. 



In watery shady places^ not general. 



Abundant in Cornwall, and many parts of the west of England, as 

 well as about Sheffield, Yorkshire. Ray. In Bagley wood, near 

 Oxford. Lawson. In Wales ; Dr. Richardson. Dill. In Sus- 

 sex abundant. Hudson, Dickson, and Borrer. On a bog near 

 High-Beech, Epping forest. Mr. E. Forster. On Hartlebury 

 Common, Worcestershire. Rev. T. Butt. In the County of 

 Cork, Ireland. Mr. J. T. Mackay. In several parts of the low- 

 lands of Scotland, and in the Scilly islands. Hooker. 



Perennial. June — August. 



A delicate little smooth plant, whose long, trailing, entangled, 

 variously branched stems creep very far. Leaves about \ an inch 

 wide, rarely a little hairy, scattered, on longish slender stalks, 

 heart-shaped, with 5 acute principal angles, and a few smaller 

 intermediate ones. Fl. terminal, solitary, on long slender stalks, 

 more or less drooping, short-lived, light blue. Segments of 

 the calyx awl-shaped, entire, permanent, the capsule opening 

 at the summit, between them, with 3 valves, though even dried 

 specimens have indications of lateral pores, which do riot open. 

 (Seeds numerous, minute. 



107. PHYTEUMA. Rampion. 



Linn. Gen. so. Juss. 165. Fl. Br. 240. Lam. 1. 124. Gccrtn.t.SO. 

 Rapunculus. Tourn. t. 38. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 106. 



Cal. superior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, acute, rather spreading 

 segments, permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, wheel-shaped, in 

 5 deep, linear, acute, recurved segments. Filam. thread- 

 shaped, dilated at the base, scarcely attached to the co- 

 rolla, much shorter than its segments. Arith. oblong. 

 Germ, inferior, angular. Style cylindrical, curved, longer 

 than the stamens. Stigma in 2 or 3 spreading segments. 

 Caps, roundish, of 2 or 3 cells, with strong ribs, between 

 which it bursts by three irregular openings. Seeds nume- 

 rous, small, obovate. 



Herbaceous, mostly perennial, milky, generally nearly 

 smooth. Fl. blue, numerous, spiked or capitate. Leaves 



