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2 to 3-celled, bursting at the side. (Name irom tlie Greek, pJiytcn, 

 a plant.) 



3. Jasione (Sheep's Scabious). — Corolla wheel-shaped, with 

 5 long narrow segments ; anthers united at the base ; stigma 

 2-cleft ; capsule 2-ccllcd, opening at the top ; flowers in heads. 

 (Name of uncertain origin.) 



4. LoBELL\. — Corolla 2-lipped, the upper part split to the base 

 of the tube. (Name from Matthias Label, a Flemish botanist.) 



I. Campanula (Bell-flower) 



1. C. rotundifolia (Hair-bell). — Smooth-; root-leaves roundish 

 kidney-shaped, notched, stalked, very soon withering ; stem-leaves 

 very narrow, tapering ; flowers light blue or rarely white. The 

 name Hair-bell is frequently, though not correctly, given to the 

 Wild Hyacinth or Blue-Bell [Scilla festalis), a plant with a thick 

 juicy flower-stalk ; but when applied to this Campanula is most 

 appropriate, its stalks being exceedingly slender and wiry. The 

 specific name, rotundifolia (round-leaved), is far from being descrip- 

 tive of the leaves which accompany the flower, as they are long 

 and narrow, but is peculiarly applicable tO: the root-leaves, as they 

 appear in winter or early spring, at which season Linnaeus is said 

 to have first observed them on the steps of the university at Upsula. 

 Heaths and dry meadows ; abundant. — Fl. July to September. 

 Perennial. 



2. C. trachelium (Nettled-leaved Bell-flower). — Lower leaves 

 stalked, heart-shaped ; upper nearly sessile, tapering to a point, 

 all strongly serrated and bristly ; flowers in axillary clusters of 

 2-3. A remarkably rough plant, 2-3 feet high, with leaves very 

 like those of the nettle, and large, deep blue, bell-shaped flowers, 

 the stalks of which are recurved when in fruit. Woods and hedges ; 

 not unfrequent. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



3. C. glomerata (Clustered Bell-flower). — Stem simple, roughish ; 

 leaves oblong, tapering, crenate, rough — the lower stalked and 

 heart-shaped at the base, the upper sessile, embracing the stem ; 

 flowers sessile, in heads. A stiff, erect plant, 3-18 inches high, 

 with terminal and (in large specimens) axillary heads of deep blue, 

 funnel-shaped, erect flowers, which have a few clasping, taper- 

 pointed bracts at the base. Dry pastures ; not unfrequent. — 

 Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



4. C. hederacea (Ivy-leaved Bell-flower).— 5/t'OT straggling, thread- 

 like ; leaves stalked, roundish heart-shaped, angular and toothed ; 

 flowers solitary, on long stalks. An exquisite little plant, generally 

 growing with Bog Pimpernel and the Cornish Money-wort, plants 

 certainly of a different habit, but scarcely less elegant than itself. 



