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ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES VI._C AMP ANU LA PERSICIPO LI A. Linn. 



Plate DCCCLXXI. 



Reich. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDCXIII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 12G9. 



Eootstock slightly creeping, slender, much branched (without 

 thickened radical fibres), stoloniferous. Stems rather slender, wiry, 

 erect, glabrous, simple or more rarely slightly branched, lladical 

 leaves narrowly oblanceolate, narrowed into indistinct winged 

 petioles ; lower stem-leaves similar but much smaller ; interme- 

 diate and upper ones strapshaped, sessile ; all firm, flat, shining, 

 glabrous, and very finely and remotely serrate or crenate-serrate. 

 Inflorescence a short lax raceme, definite, the terminal flower 

 opening first, often reduced to a single terminal flower. Flowers 

 sub-erect. Peduncles 1-flowered, rather slender, with 2 bracteoles 

 near the base. Calyx-tube glabrous or slightly hispid ; segments 

 triangular-subulate, erect. Corolla cupshaped - campanulate, with 

 the segments very slightly recurved, about one-fourth the length 

 of the whole corolla, roundish-ovate, sub-obtuse. Stigmas 3. Cap- 

 sule erect, opening by pores at the apex of the calyx-tube. 



In woods near Cullen, Banffshire, but probably not wild, and 

 on the north side of the Wharfe, at Thorp Arch, Yorkshire. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 9 to 18 inches high, sparingly leafy. Plowers pale bright- 

 blue, often white, inversely hemispherical, with the bell 1 to 1^ inch 

 long, and quite as broad, in which it differs from all the preceding 

 species, which have the corolla longer than broad. I have not seen 

 British specimens. 



Peach-leaved Bell-flower. 



French, Campanula Persici/olia. German, I'firsichhUiUrige Glockenblume. 



When under the influence of cultivation, the flowers of this species often become 

 double, white, and more numerous than when in its wild state. Both this and the 

 next species have been used dietetically, but have fallen into disuse. 



SPECIES VII— CAMPANULA RAPUNCULUS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCLXXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDCXIII. Fig. 2. 

 nUU, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1035. 



Biennial. Boot thickened, fleshy, fusiform. Badical leaves 

 obovate or spathulate, crenate, obtuse, abruptly contracted into 



