PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Jasione. 295 



simple, crenate or entire ; in some almost grassy. Most 

 of the oriental species bear scattered Jloivcrs ,- and one, 

 fk. pinnatum, see Fl. Grccc. t. 220, has compound leaves. 



1. Ph. orhiculare. Round-headed Rampion. 



Flowers in a roundish head. Leaves crenate ; radical ones 

 heart-shaped, or elliptic-lanceolate. 



Ph. orbiculare. Lhm. Sp. VI. 242. Willd. u. 1 . 92 ] . Fl. Br. 240. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. i. 142. Hook. Land. t. 55. Jacq. Austr. t. 437. 



Rapunculus n. 681. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 304. 



R. corniculatus. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 109./. 1. 



R. corniculatus montanus. Rail Sijn. 278. Ger. Em. 455./. 



R. corniculatus, folio oblongo, spica orbiculari. Moris.v.2. AQ3. 

 sect. 5. t. 5./ 47. 



R. corniculatus cseruleus minor. Barrel. Ic. t.525. 



Rapuntium montanum ravius, corniculatum. Column. Ecpltr. 223. 

 t.224. 



In pastures, and by road sides, on a chalky soil, but rare. 



On the downs of Sussex and Hampshire, in many places. Ray. 

 In several parts of Surrey and Kent. Hudson, Hooker. Plentiful 

 near Leatherhead. 



Perennial. August. 



Root long and woody, divided at the crown. Herb milky, not 

 acrid. Stems solitary, simple, leafy, somewhat angular, smooth, 

 a foot high, or more. Leaves smooth, crenate, with a midrib 

 and many reticulated veins ; the earliest radical ones heart- 

 shaped ; the next, like those on the lower part of the stem, el- 

 liptic-lanceolate ; all on long stalks : those on the upper part 

 ovate or lanceolate, sessile, fruiged at the base. Fl. of an in- 

 tensely brilliant deep blue, numerous, inodorous, sessile, forming 

 a round head, accompanied by several close, ovate-lanceolate, 

 leafy bracteas. As the 3-cclled capsules ripen, the head be- 

 comes oval, and the parts of the flower, after lasting long in a 

 faded state, are finally, as Professor Hooker observes, deciduous, 

 except the fringed culijx. Tlie figures of Morison and Bar- 

 relier are copied from tliat of Columna. 



108. JASIONE. SheepVblt. 



Linn. Gen. 4bo. Juss. 166. Fl. Br. 241. Lam. t. 724. Ga^rtn. 

 t.2,0. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 106. 



Cal. superior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, acute segments, perma- 

 nent. Cor. wheel-shaped, in 5 deep, lanceolate, equal, 

 straight, moderately spreading segments. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, short. Aiith. oblong, combined at the base. 



