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6. Rock Rampion. 
Campanula petrea foliis wariis. 
The root is long, thick, fingle, and has few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves ftand on long, flender foot- 
ftalks, and are of a cordated form, indented at 
the bafé, and fharp-pointed: they are undivided: 
atthe edges, and of a dufky green. 
The ftalks are numerous, fix or eight inches 
high, round, fmooth, and firm. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on thefe, and are 
altogether unlike thofe from the root: they are 
Jong, narrow, and fharp-pointed, not at all indent- 
ed at the bafe, and undivided at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a bright blue: 
they ftand in fmall oval heads : one of thefe heads 
terminates each ftalk, and confifts of a vaft mul- 
titude of flowers. 
The feed-veftel is oval, fmall, and’ fmooth. 
It grows among rocks in Germany and Italy. 
‘Alpinus calls it Repunculus petraens, and others 
follow him exactly. 
7. Serrated Rampion. 
Campanula foliis anguftis profunde ferratis. 
The root is long, thick, white, and undivided, 
"The leaves which firft rife from it are fhort, 
fomewhat broad, deeply ferrated, and without 
foorftalks. 
There follow thefe another fet of leaves, which 
are alfo without footftalks; but they are longer 
and narrower, and more deeply ferrated. 
In the centre of thefe rifes the ftalk, which is 
round, firm, upright, ‘and two foot and a half 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are 
like the fecond from the root, very narrow, long, 
and deeply ferrated, and without footftalks. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk, and 
on Jong footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
upper leaves : they are large and blue, deeply 
divided into five fegments, and open. 
The feed-veffel is oval and fmall. 
It is not uncommon in the woods of Germany, 
and flowers in June. x 
C. Bauhine calls it Rapunculus nemorofus anguf- 
tifolius major majore flore. 
8, Oval-leaved Bellflower. 
Campanula foliis ovatis ferratis. 
The root is long; flender, and white. 
The firft leaves are roundith and ferrated : they 
ftand on long footftalks, and are not very nume- 
rous. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of the tuft, and 
is round; ereét, and but little branched. 
The leaves ftand alternately on long footftalks, 
and are of an oval figure, pointed at the ends, 
and fharply ferrated. Thofe toward the lower 
part are broader and fhorter, thofe toward the 
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upper, narrower and longer; and juft at the top 
there are a few of a different form, oblong, with- 
out footftalks, and not ferrated. ‘ 
The flowers are large, and of a pale blue: 
they ftand on long and flender footftalks about 
the top of the plant, and are not very numerous. 
The feed-veffel is oval and fmooth. 
It is frequent in the Harts foreft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula foliis fubrotundis. 
When it grows, on barren ground the flowers are 
often white, 
g. Broad-leaved cluftered Bellflower. 
Campanula latifolia floribus confertis. 
The root is long, flender, white, and hung with 
many fibres. : 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and placed 
on long, redifh footftalks: they are not dented at 
the bafe, but are broadeft there, and gradually 
narrower to the point; and they are a litle hairy. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre, and is round, 
flender, not,at all branched, pale coloured, and. 
fomewhat hairy.: it is about ten inches high. : 
The leaves, ftand. irregularly, on it: they are 
like thofe from the root, but narrower, fharp- 
pointed, not dented. at the edges, but a little 
hairy: thofe on the lower part, have fhort foor- 
ftalks, the others none. 
The flowers ftand, in a thick clufter at the top 
of the ftalk; they. are fmall, and of a beautiful 
blue,, deep, and divided into five fegments at the 
edge. 
The feed-veffel is oval, fmooth, and divided 
into three parts and full of fmall feed. 
It is a native of France and moft other parts 
of Europe. : 
C. Bauhine calls it Repunculys latifolius umbel- 
latus. In Englifh it is commonly called Umbel- 
lated rampiou. 
Moft of the fpecies of Zel/flower are efculent 
plants, particularly the principal of the zampions. 
The roots of feveral of thefe are eaten in {pring, 
in the manner of radifhes, raw or boiled, and they 
are kept in fome gardens for that purpofe; they 
' are tender, full of a milky juice, and well tafted. 
They are faid to increafe milk in the breafts of 
| nurfes, but that is an idle conceit, grounded only 
on the milky look of their own juice. 
The common various-leaved bellflower is cele- 
brated in fome places as a cure for the fcurvy : 
| they take the juice in fpring, with that of 
cleavers, water crefs, and brooklime. When fo 
many things of known virtue are ufed together 
it is not eafy to fay whether fuch an addition 
has much efficacy. 
The root of any of the rampion kinds, if eaten 
in due quantity, operate by urine; and they ‘are 
fuppofed to create an appetite. We do not ufe 
them much in England, but they are in great 
efteem in France and Italy. They cut them into 
thin flices, and eat them with oil and vinegar. 
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