CAMPANUIACE^ 



515 



Under hedges, on banks, and in bushy 

 pastures, over the whole of Europe, 

 except the extreme north, extending to 

 the Caucasus and to the Ural. In Bri- 

 tain, chiefly confined to the central and 

 southern counties of England. Fl. 



Fig. 614. 



7. Harebell Campanula. Campanula rotundifolia, Linn. 

 (Fig. 615.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 866.) 



A perennial, with a slender, creeping 

 rootstock, often very intricate ; the ra- 

 dical leaves, which mostly die away at 

 the time of flowering, orbicular or heart- 

 shaped ; those of the stem all narrow- 

 lanceolate or linear, and entire. Stems 

 ascending or erect, 6 to 18 inches high, 

 often branched, with a few elegantly 

 droop ingblue flowers, in a loose raceme or 

 panicle, or sometimes solitary. Corolla 

 bell-shaped, with 5 broad lobes much 

 shorter than the entire part. Capsule 

 ovoid or globular, pendulous, and open- 

 ing in short clefts close to the base. 



In hilly pastures, on heaths, banks, and 

 roadsides, the commonest species in Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, from the Medi- 

 terranean to the Arctic Circle, and as- 

 cending to great elevations. Abundant all over Britain 

 and autumn. 



Fig. 615. 



Fl. summer 



