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CAMPANULA PERSICIFOLIA L. IN BRITAIN. 
By G. Cuarinee Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tue distribution of this rr given in Nyman’s Mit ger 
Flore Europea, p. 481, is as follows: ‘Scand. (exc. Nory. bor. 
e 
Austr. Hung. Slavon. Transs. Banat. Serb. Bosn. Croat. Istr. 
Dalm. Herceg. Monten. Macedon. ( r.) Thrace. a ae a (Olymp.) 
Ross. med. mer.” So that its ae from Britain as a native 
The places of growth, as given in some of the leading con- 
tinental floras, are: ‘ ara montag gneuses de toute la France,” 
Gren. Godr. Fl. Fr. 420; ‘*In nemoribus, silvaticis, dumetis 
ts mont. Hispanie orientalis passim,”’ Willk. & Lange, Prod. 
l. Hisp. ii. 293; ** Bois montueux, rochers, bords des chemins 
nd, 
sylvis,”” Gaud. Fl. Helv. ii. 154; “In sylvis preecipue montosis, in 
montosis preruptis on virgulta,”’ Koch, Fl. Germ. ii. 541; * Bois 
et taillis de la plaine,” Bouvier, Flore des Alpes, p. 423; “In 
dumetis,” Fl. Hattie, t. 1087; -* wo in sylvis pratisque,”’ 
Reichenbach, Ic. Fl. Germ. xix. p. 
The first notice of it as a British ata is to be found in The 
Herbarium Britannicum of George Don, fase. viii. (dated 1806) 
0. 180, where it is labelled, ** Companula persicifo 
t 087, Bulliard, Herb. Fra. t. 367. This anne companula [sic] 
y now be regarded as an addition to the British Flora, as I have 
Saleh it in woods near Cullen in July, 1808, at which time it 
was in flower, and appeared to be indigenous. What convinces me 
the more of this is, that all the companulas of this species found 
hat neighbourhood were double-flowered. I also 
Pmt diligently if ever it had been seen with single flowers in 
that country, but was uniformly answered in the negative. I may 
fateh observe that I have often seen the plant neglected and 
allowed to remain without culture for years, but could never observe 
any variation of its of ririterss it may therefore be concluded that 
this plant is truly indige 
In the English Fléay is "301 (1824), sp omeott writes: “ tony woods 
in Scotland. Near Cullen, Don specimens have a 
perfectly wild aspect.”” The figure in act Betany rs 2773) was 
made from a specimen in Smith’s copy of Don’s fasciculus. 
veges (Cyb. Brit. ii. 141) gives ‘‘Area (15). Alien. In | 
‘woods near Cullen, apparently indigenes (Fl. Scot.). Although 
widely distributed in Scandinavia, it is to be feared that there is 
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