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Heaths, tvalls, baiiks, borders of fields. Bullingdon Green. Shot- 

 over Hill. Stonesfiekl. Sb. 



Per. June. 



Herbage dark-green, smooth. Stems upright, slender. Ls. lower 

 stalked, but soon withering, and sometimes wanting. Fl. stalks 

 panicled, bracteated. Cor. sky-blue, sometimes white, drooping, 

 tremulous. 



One of our prettiest wild fl. A green pigment from the fl. 



(C. Rapuncidus. Rampion B. Leaves wavy, notched, 

 roughish ; root-ones elliptic-spear-shaped. Panicle com- 

 pact. Calyx entire. E. B. 283. Rapuntium parvum. 

 G. E. 453. 



Banks. Warwickshire. Pn. Bagley Wood. Whittlewood 



Forest. Tur. * 

 Bien. July, August. 

 Stem three feet, angular ; hairy below. Fl. blue ; swollen below.) 



(C. latifolia. Giant B. Leaves roughish, egg-spear- 

 shaped. Stem unbranched, round. Stalks single- 

 flowered. Fruit drooping. E. B. 302. Trachelium 

 majus Belgarum. G. E. 448. 



Moist thickets. Cransley Wood, Northamptonshire. Y. Banks 

 of the river Arrow, the Alne, &c. Pn. 



Per. July, August. 



Very large, four feet. Fl. erect, deep blue, large.) 



C. rapunculoides. Creeping B. Leaves roughish ; 

 root-ones heart-spear-shaped, notched, stalked ; upper- 

 most stalkless, spear-shaped. Flowers drooping, grow- 

 ing on one side, in a terminal, bracteated, upright 

 cluster. Calyx bent back. E. B. 1369- 



Woods, fields.* In some woods in Oxfordshire. Amongst yew- 

 trees. Buddie's Herbarium. Sm. 



Per. July, August. 



Ls. root-ones resemble those of violets. Stem about one foot and 

 a half. Fl. lai-ge, bright-purpUsh, stalks short, solitary, axillary, 

 or bracteated. 



C Trachelium.^ Nettle-leaved B. Stem angular. Leaves 

 spear-shaped, partly heart-shaped, sharply saw-toothed, 

 bristly as well as the calyx. Stalks axillary, with few 

 flowers, E. B. 12. H. L. 109. Trachelium majus. 

 G. E. 448. 



Groves, thickets, hedges. Shotover plantations. Magdalen College 



' Gr. tracMlos, the neck, from the supposed virtue of the bitter, aud some- 

 what acrid Is. in decoction as a gargle in sore throats. 



