56 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 



Bracteas minute, remote from the flower. E. B. 312. 

 C. fas. 2. 13, Smilax lenis minor. G. E. 86l. 



Hedges, fields, gardens. 



Per. June. 



Root running very deep in the ground. Stems long, twining, 

 climbing, angular. Ls. alternate. J^l. stalks long. Cor. deep 

 rose-coloui'ecl, plaits yellowish : mostly closing before rain : 

 sweet smelling, in dry, warm weather. A very troublesome, 

 handsome weed. 



C. sepium. Great Bindweed. Leaves arrow-shaped, 

 lopped at the hinder lobes. Stalks square, single- 

 flowered. Bracteas heart-shaped, close to the flower. 

 E. B. 313. C. fas. 1. 13. Smilax lenis, sive Isevis 

 major. G. E. 86l. 



Moist hedges, osier holts, thickets. 

 Per. July. 



Roots long, creeping. Stems very long, twining. Ls. alternate. 

 Fl. solitary, on axillary, square stalks. Cor. large, white. 

 Jiract. heart-shaped, red-bordered. Its large milk-M^hite blos- 

 soms very ornamental. Plant may be trained to a great height. 

 Inspissated juice, a powerful purge; dose twenty or thirty gr. 

 The scammony a species of convolvulus. Fl. sometimes rose- 

 coloured. 



POLEMO'NIUM.' Jacob's Ladder.^ 



* P. coeruleum. Blue JacoVs Ladder. Greek Vale- 

 rian. Leaves winged. Flowers erect. Root fibrous. 

 E. B. 14. Valeriana Gr^ca. G. E. IO76. 



Bushy places. Near the plantations, under the ochre pits at Shot- 

 over Hill. Sh. Woodstock road, between first and second mile- 

 stone from Oxford. B.i'. 



Per. June. 



Stem eighteen to twenty inches. Fl. panicled. Leafl. elliptic- 

 spear-shaped, with an odd one. Cor. blue, sometimes white : a 

 common ornament of rustic gardens. 



CAMPANULA. Bell-flower. 



C rotundifolia. Round-leaved B. Root leaves heart, 

 or kidney-shaped, saw-toothed ; stem leaves linear, 

 entire. E. B. 866. C. fas. 4. 21. G. E. 452. 



' From poZemos, war. Gr. From the contention of two kings, Polemon, and 

 Philetaerus, both claiming the honour of finding the plant, riin. 

 ' From the leaves. 



