300 campanulAce^e 



broad at the base ; anthers free ; capsule not elongated, 2 — 5- 

 chambered, opening by lateral pores below the sepals. (Name a 

 diminutive from the Latin campana, a bell.) 



1. C. glomerdta (Clustered Bell-flower). — A stiff, erect plant, 

 3 — 18 in. high ; stem simple, roughish, leafy ; leaves crenate, 

 rough, the lower stalked and heart-shaped at the base, the upper 

 sessile, embracing the stem ; flowers nearly sessile, deep violet- 

 purple, funnel-shaped, erect, in terminal and axillary clusters. 



fHYTEi'MA orbicularis {Round-headed Ramfnon), 



each I in. across. — Dry pastures, especially on a chalky soil : 

 frequent. — Fl. July — October. Perennial. 



2. C. Trachelium (Nettle-leaved Bell-flower, Wild Canterbury 

 Bells). — A remarkably rough plant, 2—3 feet high, with angular 

 stem; leaves very like those of the nettle, strongly serrated and 

 bristly, stalked, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; flowers in axillary clusters 

 of 2 — 3, on short stalks which are recurved when in fruit, large, f 

 in. or more across, blue-purple, lighter than C. glomerdta, bell- 



