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COROLLIFLOR7E 



The leaves are of a remarkably fine 

 texture, and delicate green hue ; the 

 flowers of a pale blue, sometimes 

 slightly drooping, and supported on 

 long stalks scarcely thicker than a 

 hair. Its usual height is 4-6 inches, 

 but when it grows among grass or 

 rushes, it climbs by their help to a 

 height of 12 inches or more. Wet 

 heaths, and by the side of streams in 

 the south ani west ; very abundant 

 in Cornwall. — Fl. July to September. 

 Perennial. 



Campanula Hederacea 5. C. latifolia (Giant Bell-flower). — 



(Ivy-leaved Bell-ilower) A stout species, 3-4 feet high ; leaves 



ovate lanceolate, toothed, the lower 



ones stalked ; flowers large, blue or white; hairy within. Woody 



glens ; not uncommon in .Scotland and Nortliern England, becoming 



more rare towards the south. 



6. C. Rapimculoides (Creeping Bell-flower). — Slems about 1-2 

 feet high ; lower-leaves heart-shaped, stalked ; upper ones ovate 

 lanceolate ; flowers pale blue, axillary, drooping all on one side. 

 Very rare. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



7. C. Rapunculns (Rampion Bell-flower, Ramps). — A tall species, 

 2-3 feet high, with clustered panicles of rather small, erect, pale 

 blue flowers, the calyx of which is divided into 5 awl-shaped seg- 

 ments. Not* common ; local. Formerly cultivated in gardens 

 for the sake of its tuberous roots. — Fl. July, August. Biennial. 



8. C. hybrida (Corn Campanula), — A small plant, 4-12 inches 

 high, with a rough wiry stem, oblong, rough, wavy leaves, and a 

 few small terminal purple flowers, the caly.x; of which is much 

 longer than the corolla ; corolla wheel-shaped ; capsule triangular, 

 elongated. Cornfields ; not common. By some botanists this is 

 called Specularia hybrida. — Fl. June to September. Annual. 



2. Phyteuma (Rampion) 



1. P. orbiculare (Round-headed Rampion). — Flowers in a round 

 terminal head ; lower leaves notched, heart-shaped, stalked ; upper 

 narrow, sessile. A singular plant, consisting of a solitary erect 

 leafy stalk, 6-18 inches high, surmounted by "a round head of blue 

 flowers. The head when in fruit becomes oval. Chalky downs in 

 the south ; rare. — Fl. July. Perennial. 



2. P. spicatum (Spiked Rampion).— Much taUcr than the last, 

 and bears its fiowers, which are cream-coloured, in a terminal 



