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ramidalis altera. Others, Petromarula, and Lac- 
tuca petrea. The whole plant is full of a milky 
juice, 
2. Yellow Bellflower. 
Campanula lutea Linifolia. 
The root is long, thick, and divided into fe- 
veral parts. i 
The firit leaves are fhort, narrow, pointed, and 
without footttalks : they rife in thick tufts, and 
ftand nearly upright, only with the points turn- 
ing a little outwards, 
he ftalks rife from the centre of thefe tufts» 
and are round, flender, weak, and about feven 
inches high: they are not at all branched, and 
are {carce able to fupport themfelves perfectly erect. 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregu- 
larly; they are longifh, narrow, fharp-pointed, 
and without footftalks: they much refemble thofe 
of flax. 
The flowers are extreamly large, and very 
beautiful: they ftand fingly, one on each ftalk 
moft commonly, though fometimes there are 
more; and they are an inch long, of a very fine 
orange yellow, deep, and even at the edge. 
The cup is divided into five parts, and re- 
mains with the feed-veffel, which is oval, fmooth, 
large, and full of {mall feeds. 
It is not uncommon in France and Italy, and 
flowers in June. : 
J. Bauhine calls it Linifolia campanula lutea. 
Lobel, Campanula linifolia lutea moutis lupi flore 
volubilis, “The flower is indeed very like fome of 
the bindweed kinds, particularly the fea bindweed, 
but the genera are diftin@, and this is rue cam- 
panula. 
Linneus feparates this plant from among the 
bellflowers, and ranks it as a fpecies of flax: he 
calls ic Linum campanulatum. C, Bauhine, we 
have feen, calls it alfo by fuch a name; but Lin- 
neus fhould not follow his authority againft_na- 
ture: we fhall fee that it is againft his own 
fyftem alfo. Leet us refer to his generical cha- 
racter of flax, /iaum, and we fhall fee that its 
flower, according to his own defcription, has five 
petals: how then can this plant be a fpecies of 
that genus, when its flower confifts of one, and 
that not fo much as divided into fegments at the 
rim? There are other particulars in which it 
differs from his genericai chara@ter of linums but 
this is fufficient: he owns he never faw it grow- 
ing. It feems a plant intended by nature to con- 
lvulus and campanula kinds, 
3. Pearch-leaved Bellflower. 
Campanula perficee foliis. 
The root is long, thick, divided into fevera] 
parts, and furnifhed with fibres in great abun- 
dance. 
The firft leaves rifein a tuft, and are long, 
narrow, undivided at the edges, and of a bright 
green. ‘ 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, ftriated, 
and two feet and a half high. 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregularly 
upon it: they are long, narrow, undivided, of 
a beautiful green, and without footftalks ; there 
frequently rife tufts of young leaves in the bo- 
foms of the old. 
The flowers are very large and beautiful: they 
ftand in a kind of irregular fpike from the middle 
of the ftalk to the top: they have long footftalks, 
and are of a beautiful blue, fometimes white ; 
they are broad and fhallow, and divided into five 
pointed fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veffel is large, oval, fmooth, and 
divided into three cells within. 
It is frequently wild in France and Germany. 
It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Rapunculys petfice felis 
magno flore. J. Bauhine, Campanula anguftifolia 
caerulea et alba. 
4. Pyramidal Bellflower. 
Campanula pyramidalis folio lato. 
The root is long, thick, and divided into many 
parts, 
The firft leaves are few: they are fhort and 
broad, a little indented at the edges, pointed at 
the end, and placed on long footftalks. 
The ftalks are round, thick, firm, upright, 
and four foot high, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
like thofe from the root, but longer in proporti- 
on to.their breadth, and more ferrated: the 
are placed in the fame manner on long footftalks,; 
and are of a pleafant green. 
The flowers ftand from the middle to the top 
in a long fpike of a pyramidal form : they are, 
large, blue, and wide open at the mouth, where 
they are divided into five fegments, 
The feed-veffel is oval, fmooth, and large, 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in July. . 
C. Bauhine calls it Rapunculus bortenfis latiore 
folio feu pyramidalis. Others, Campanula la&e/- 
cens pyramidalis, 
. Lefiér pyramidal Bellfower, 
Campanula pyramidalis minor. 
The root is large, long, thick, and divided, 
The leaves that rife from it are very numerous: 
they ftand on fhort footftalks, and are oblong 
broad, tharply ferrated at the edges, and tharp. 
pointed. 
The ftalk is round, ereét, firm, and five fee 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are of 
the fhape of thofe from the root, but without 
footftalks, 
The flowers are large, numerous, and of a 
pale blue, fomeimes white, as in the other {pe- 
cies: they are deeply divided into five fegments ; 
and they grow feveral together upon very long 
and flender footftalks, nifing from the bofom of 
the leaves, as well as at the top of the main ftalk: 
the pedicles which fupport them are {o weak thag 
they commonly droop, 
The feed-veffel is fin 
vided into three cells, 
of fmall feed. 
_ [tis a. native of the warmer parts of Europe 
in damp places; and flowers in June, 
Alpinus calls it Campanula pyramidalis minor, 
all, oval, fmooth, and di- 
wherein is a Sreat quantity 
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