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274 THE CAMPANULA FAMILY. [Jastone. 
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II. JASIONE. JASIONE. 
Flowers blue, in small, terminal, hemispherical heads, surrounded by an — 
nvolucre of several bracts. Calyx reduced to 5 very narrow, slender lobes. 
Corolla regular, deeply divided into 5 narrow segments. Anthers united at 
the base into a ring round the long club-shaped style. 
Besides our British species, the genus contains two or three nearly allied 
perennials, chiefly from the mountains of central southern -Europe and 
western Asia. The flower-heads of this genus show the nearest approach 
to Composite, from which, however, the many-seeded capsules at once dis- 
tinguish it. | 
1, J.montana, Linn. (fig. 612). Sheep’s-bit Jasione, Sheep’s-bit.— 
Root annual or biennial, bearing in the latter case tufts of radical leaves 
which live through the winter. Stems sometimes short and decumbent or 
ascending, sometimes nearly erect, a foot high, with a few spreading 
branches. Leaves linear or lanceolate, waved on the edges, and more or less 
hairy. Flower-heads, in the British variety, about half an inch diameter, on 
long terminal peduncles; the involucral bracts broadly ovate, the flowers or 
florets small, of a rather pale blue, on short pedicels. 
In heathy pastures, on banks, etc., throughout Europe, except the 
extreme north, and eastward to the Caucasus, Extends almost all over 
England and Ireland, but not north of the Clyde in Scotland. FV. summer. 
On the Continent the size of the flowers and the whole habit of the plant 
are very variable. 
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Ill. PHYTEUMA. RAMPION. 
Flowers (in the British species) in compact terminal heads or spikes. 
Corolla when in bud cylindrical and curved, opening more or less into 5 
long-linear segments. Anthers free and distinct. Styles cleft at the top 
into 2 or 8 stigmatic lobes. Capsules crowned by the spreading teeth of 
the calyx, and bursting at the sides. 
A small genus, spread over Europe and western Asia, but chiefly in the 
great central mountain-chains, ascending to great elevations. It is readily 
known by the long, curved flower-buds. i 
Flower-heads globular F ; . ; . : : . . 1. P. orbiculare. 
Flower-heads oblong, becoming at length cylindrical . . 2. P. spicatum. 
1. P. orbiculare, Linn. (fig. 613). Round-headed Rampion.—Root- 
stock thick or shortly creeping, with simple, erect or slightly decumbent 
stems, 6 to 18 inches high. The early radical leaves are ovate and cordate, 
on long stalks, the subsequent ones and lower stem-leaves stalked, but 
narrow-oblong or lanceolate; the upper ones few, narrow, and sessile. 
Flowers of a deep blue, in a globular terminal head of nearly an inch in 
diameter, surrounded by a few short, broadly lanceolate bracts. 
In pastures, throughout central and southern Europe, but not extending 
into Scandinavia. In Britain, only on the chalk downs of southern Eng- ~ 
land, from Kent to Wilts. Fl. summer. | 
2. P.spicatum, Linn. (fig. 614). Spiked Rampion.—A taller and 
stouter plant than the last, with longer and broader leaves, the lower ones 2 
to 4 inches long and an inch or more in breadth, on stalks of 3 or 4 inches 
the upper ones few, smallerand narrower, The flowers form at first an ovoi 
