292 CAMPANULACE^E. [Campanula. 



This species is frequent in gardens under some of its numerous forms, wliicli by 

 the continental botanists are held to be distinct species. 



2. G. Trac]iclium,'L. Nettle-leaved Bell-floiver. Great Throat- 

 ivort. " Hispid, stem angular, leaves coarsely double-serrate, 

 lower ones cordate long-stalked, upi^er nearly sessile lanceolate 

 acuminate, peduncles axillary few-iiowered, calyx-segments lan- 

 ceolate erect, capsule drooping with the clefts at the base." — Br. 

 Ft. p. 248. E. B. t. 12. 



;8. Flowers white. 



In dry chalky and hilly woods, thickets, hedfjes and on bushy declivities in the 

 interior of the island ; abundantly in West Medina, scarcely found in the eastern 

 hundred. Fl. July — September. Fr. September, October, if.. 



Fl. Med. — Undercliff, Sheridan's Guide. 



W. MIed. — Frequent in the woods at Swainston and Rowledge, where it was 

 noticed by my friend G. Kirkpalrick, Esq. Abundant in Tolt wood, and common 

 elsewhere about Gatcornbe in fields and hedges. In Lorden copse, between Che- 

 verton and Shorwell. Chalky banks by Shorwell, sparingly. Near Chillerton. 

 Plentiful in Sluccombe coppice, near Roughborough. Weslridge cop-e, com- 

 mon. Hedge between Idlecombe and Shorwell, Mr. W. D. Siiooke, and every- 

 where avoiding the coast and flat country. 



/3. A specimen or two with the common bliie-flowered kind in Lorden copse. 



Root whitish, tapeiing, with several strong lateral branches. Stems 1 or more, 

 2 — 4 feet high, erect, angular, leafy, hollow in the centre, simple or branched 

 (sometimes quite bushy), rough with scattered bristly hairs. Leaves alternate, very 

 various in breadth, lanceohite, ovato-lanceolate or even triangular, subcordate at 

 the base, on very short petioles ; much resembling those of the common Nettle in 

 size, shape and colour, rough and hairy all over, coarsely and irregularly inciso- 

 serrate. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3 tofiether in the axils of the 

 leaves, chiefly towards the termination of the stem and branches, on rather short 

 simple or divided pedicels, erect or nodding, bright purplish blue, sometimes 

 white, large and handsome. Calyx scarcely half the length of the corolla, bristly ; 

 sepals lanceolate, acute, single-ribbed, scarcely spreading. Corolla bell-shaped, 

 above an inch long, 5. ribbed, the segments a little spreading or teflexed, some- 

 what bristly without, villous within. Style densely pilose, the hairs erect. Cap- 

 sule brownish, membranous, nodding, nearly hemispherical, hispid and angular, 

 with three stout branching ribs, dehiscent by as many oblong transverse pores in 

 the angles formed by the union of tlie ribs at the base. Seeds very numerous, 

 reddish gray or ash-colour, broadly ovate or elliptical, flat and sometimes with a 

 slight compressed margin ; appearing under a high magnifier as if co\ered with 

 a thin and exquisitely finely striated pellicle. 



3. C. rotiindifoUa, L. Bound-leaved Bell-flower. Heath-hcll. 

 " Glabrous, root-leaves subrotundo-cordate crenate (very soon 

 withering), lower cauline ones lanceolate, upper linear entire, 

 flowers solitary or racemose drooping, catyx-segments subulate, 

 capsule drooping with the clefts at the base." — Br. Fl. p. 248. 

 E. B. t. 866. 



(3. Flowers white. 



In dry sandy fields and pastures, on heaths, walls, banks and chalky downs ; 

 abundantly, and most so in elevated situations. Fl. June^ — September. If.. 



B. A few specimens by the roadside over Bleak down. [On Ashey down, Dr. 

 Bell-Saher, Edrs.] 



Capsules strongly deflexed or nodding, siibhemispherical, truncate, with several 

 fhort proniinent ribs. Seeds elliptical, pale brown, minutely and longitudinally 

 reticniato-striute 



