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THE CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



i. Ivy Campanula. Campanula hederacea, Linn. 



(Fig. 616.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 73.) 



A little, graceful, prostrate perennial, 

 with very slender, thread-like branches, 

 and small, delicate leaves, mostly orbi- 

 cular or broadly heart-shaped, with a 

 few broad, angular teeth. Flowers on 

 long, filiform peduncles, drooping in the 

 bud, nearly erect when fully out, and 

 often drooping again as the fruit ripens. 

 Corolla not half an inch long, narrow- 

 bellshaped, of a delicate pale-bluish pur- 

 ple. Capsule almost globular, opening 

 in 3 valves at the top between the caly- 

 cine teeth, on which account this species 

 is placed by modern botanists in the 

 genus Wahlenbergia. 

 In moist, shady pastures, and woods, chiefly along rills and banks. 

 Abundant in the extreme west of Europe, extending through central 

 France, eastward to the E-hine. In Britain, common in Ireland and 

 western England, as far north as the Isle of Man, and more sparingly 

 in the east, from Sussex in the south to Yorkshire in the north. Fl. 

 summer and autumn. 



Fig. 616. 



9. Corn Campanula. 



Fig. 617. 



Campanula hybrida, Linn. (Fig. 617.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 375.) 



A nearly simple annual, erect or de- 

 cumbent, branched at the base, 6 to 8 

 inches high, and rather hairy. Leaves 

 oblong, much waved at the edges. Flowers 

 sessile in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 remarkable for their long, narrow, tri- 

 angular ovary and capsule, crowned by 

 the linear or oblong leafy segments of 

 the calyx. Corolla blue, much shorter 

 than the calyx, and very open. The 

 capsule opens by short clefts close under 

 the segments of the calyx. Seeds very 

 bright and shining. 



A cornfield weed, apparently of south- 

 ern origin, but now widely spread over a 

 great part of Europe. JXot uncommon 



