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Phyteitma.^ 



XLYIL CAMPANULACE^ 



259 



pastures In Scotland ; but confined chiefly to the east side, between 

 the Frith of Forth and Montrose. 1/.. 7, 8. — Varyino* much in 



from 3 or 4 inches to a foot. Flowers rather lar^-e, erect- 

 Many slight varieties of this plant are considered to be species by the 

 Continental botanists. 



heigh 





** Cor. companulate. Capsule somewhat globose, partly superior^ the 



free portion opening hy ^—5 valves. 



Wahlenbergia. 



9. C. hederdcea L. (Ivy -leaved B.); stem weak filifoYin^ leaves 

 all stalked cordate angularly 5-lobed glabrous, peduncles soli- 

 tary. E, B. t. 73. Wahlenbergia Reich. 



In moist shady woods, in the south of England, and the west of 

 Scotland; Wales, and Ireland. %, 7, 8. — A most graceful little 

 plant, growing in lax tufts like Sihthorpia Europcea. Peduncles long, 

 slender, mostly terminal. Flowers half an inch or more in length, 

 at first drooping then erect, pale purph'sh-blue. Fruit an almost 

 globose capsule, three-fourths adhering to the calyx, opening, not at 



the sides, but in the upper free part, between the persistent segments 

 of the calyx. 



*** Corolla nearly rotate. Capsule prismatical, elongated openijig hy 



lateral clefts between the caL ^segments. Specularia. 



10. C. hyhrida L. {Corn J5.) ; stem simple or often branched 

 from the base, leaves oblong crenate waved, corolla widely 

 spreading shorter than the calyx-seojments, capsule triano-ular. 

 Ji. B. t. 375. Specularia Alph. : DC. 



Corn-fields of a dry and chalky nature, chiefly confined to the 

 middle and southern'parts of England. Near Guillon, E. Lothian: 

 Iifeshire. ©. 6 — 9. 



2, Phyteuma Linn. Eampion. 



Cor. rotate, in 5 deep linear segments, 

 the base ; anthers distinct. 



Filaments dilated at 



. . -- 'S'%A/za 2— 3-cleft. Caps.o^2~^ 



cells, bursting at the side. {Flowers in dense bracteated spikes 

 or heads.) —l^ame : (^vrevixa (the same as ^wrov), the plant, - 

 given par excellence to some medicinal plant by the ancients, 

 t)ut ^yhlch probably bore little or no resemblance to the present. 



1. F. orhiculure L. (rou7id-headed JR.) ; head of flowers glo- 

 Kiose, ot fruit oval, radical leaves cordate-ovate petiolate crenate 

 ower cauline ones ovate- oblong, upper as v/ell as the bracteas 

 lanceolate, stigmas 3. F. B. t. 142. 



Chalky soils, to the south of London; but rare. On the downs 

 ot Sussex and Hampshire ; in Surrey and Kent. 1^ . 7, 8. 



1 font 1 • V. T> ^1 " ' '" ""''^^ ""*^ xveiu. 4-. t, o. — Stetn 



ooi nigh.^ Root4eaves numerous, but often withering while the 



ToZZV^ '"^ perfection, as is the case with those of Campanula 



war rr'r r^°"'' ''™°*^' S'-adually becoming smaller up- 



vards. Heads of flowers of a most beautiful blue colour. The 



