16 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Biennial or annual. Root slender, not fleshy. Radical leaves 

 oblong-oblanceolate, repand-crenate, sub-obtuse, on short indistinct 

 winged petioles, decaying before flowering. Stem erect, rather 

 stout, slightly hispid in the lower part, copiously corymbosely 

 branched in the upper half. Stem-leaves rather numerous, oblong- 

 strapshajied, acute ; uppermost ones strapshaped-lanceolate, very 

 acute ; all very slightly repand-crenate, slightly hispid or sub- 

 glabrous. Inflorescence corymbose, or a very lax panicle ter- 

 minated by a corymb, definite, the terminal flower opening first. 

 Plowers erect. Peduncles 1-flowered, or with 2 or 3 flowers 

 racemosely arranged, slender, very long, with several linear- 

 subulate bracteoles at equal distances along it. Calyx-tube gla- 

 brous ; segments linear, subulate-serrulate, sub-erect. Corolla 

 very widely funnel-shaped, campanulate, with the segments re- 

 curved-spreading, rather more than half the length of the whole 

 corolla, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute. Stigmas 3. Capsule erect, 

 opening by pores at the apex of the calyx-tube. 



In hedges and bushy places. Rather rare. In Dorset, Hants, 

 Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Bucks, Derby, Notts, and most of the coun- 

 ties on the borders of Wales, where it occurs in Monmouth and 

 Breckon ; also in Yorkshire, and reported as far North as West- 

 moreland and Durham, but the two last on unconfirmed authority. 



England. Perennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 3 feet high, angular, with the angles hispid, much 

 branched above, with the branches elongated-spreading. Stem- 

 leaves similar to those of C. Rapunculus, but more acute and more 

 uniform in shape, usually considerably smaller and more distant ; 

 the flowers, too, in C. patula are fewer, with much longer pedun- 

 cles, and arranged in a very lax corymb with spreading branches, 

 instead of a panicle or raceme. The corolla is about the same length, 

 but much broader and more deeply divided than in C. Rapunculus, 

 with the segments widely spreading and reflexed at the tips ; the 

 colour is nearly the same. The calyx-segments are not so long, 

 broader at the base, and finely serrulate at the margins. The radical 

 leaves are very different, being narrower and not abruptly con- 

 tracted at the base, and the root is never thickened and fleshy as in 

 the Rampion. 



C. patula has been compared with C. rotundii'olia ; but I fail to 

 perceive any close resemblance between the two species. 



Spreading Bell-jloicer. 

 French, Campanula Elai&e. German, Ausijebreilete GloclceiMume. 



