CAMPANULACEiE. ]7 



Sub-Genus II.— SPECULARIA. Heist. 



Calyx-tube cylindrical-prismatic, not enlarged upwards. Corolla 

 nearly rotate, with 5 shallow lobes. Capsule generally longer than 

 the calyx-segments, wholly interior, opening by short slits towards 

 the apex of the calyx-tube. 



SPECIES IX.-C AMP ANUL A HYBRIDA. Linn. 



Plate DCCCLXXIV 



Eeich. Ic. ¥1. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDCXVI. Fig. 4. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1272. 



Specularia hybrida, A. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p 490. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 212. 



Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 544. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 



p. 405. Reich. 1. c. 



Annual. Radical leaves roundish-spathulate, crenate, abruptly 

 attenuated into very short petioles, decaying before flowering. 

 Stem erect, or the lateral ones decumbent at the base, rather stout, 

 hispid, paniculately branched in the upper half, and frequently 

 also from the crown of the root. Stem-leaves rather distant, oblong, 

 lowest attenuated at the base, the rest sessile, and generally semi- 

 amplexicaul ; all crenate and undulated on the margins, obtuse, 

 hispid or puberulent. Inflorescence a slender interrupted sub- 

 racemose panicle. Flowers erect, sessile, or very shortly stalked, 

 terminating the stem and branches, solitary or 2 or 3 together, 

 with leaflike bracts at the base of each. Calyx-tube hispid ; 

 segments elliptical, acute, ciliated, erect. Corolla nearly rotate, 

 not above half the length of the calyx-segments, with 5 acute 

 deltoid lobes about one - third the length of the whole corolla. 

 Capsule prismatic, abruptly attenuated at the apex, twice to four 

 times the length of the calyx-segments. 



In cultivated fields in sandy and chalky soils. Not uncommon 

 in the South and East of England ; rare in the North, where it 

 occurs in Yorkshire, and very local in Scotland, where it grows 

 about Aberledy, in Haddingtonshire, and in Eifeshire. 



England, Scotland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



Stem solitary or several, from the crown of the root, erect, 3 to 18 

 inches high, rather wiry. Leaves small, rarely above 1 inch long, 

 and generally less strongly undulated. Corolla inconspicuous, lilac 

 outside, pale-purple within, about J inch across, the sepals extend- 

 ing far beyond it and spreading in flower, but erect in fruit. Cap- 



vol. vx. l) 



