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THE CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



5. Bampion Campanula. Campanula Rapunculus, Linn. 

 (Fig. G13.) 



(Ehg. Bot. t. 283. Ramps or Garden Rampion.) 



An erect, stiff, but rather slender 

 perennial, more or less covered with stiff 

 white hairs, which almost disappear when 

 cultivated. Radical leaves oblong or 

 ovate, on long stalks, and slightly cre- 

 nate ; the stem-leaves narrow and mostly 

 entire. Flowers small, on short pe- 

 duncles, forming long, simple, or slightly 

 branched terminal racemes ; the corolla 

 divided to about the middle into 5 lan- 

 ceolate segments, but not near so large 

 nor so open as in the spreading C. Cap- 

 sule short and erect, opening in small 

 lateral clefts close under the narrow- 

 linear segments of the calyx. 



On banks, roadsides, and open pas- 

 tures, in central and southern Europe 

 to the Caucasus, becoming scarcer fur- 

 ther north, and in many places pro- 

 bably only escaped from cultivation. In Britain, it used to be com- 

 monly raised in kitchen-gardens for its tuberous roots, and it is uncer- 

 tain whether in those localities in southern England, where it is now 

 undoubtedly wild, it should be held as a true native or merely esta- 

 blished through cultivation. Fl. summer. 



Fie. 613. 



6. Spreading Campanula. Campanula patula, Linn. 

 (Fig. 614.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 42.) 



An erect but rather slender annual or biennial, about a foot high, 

 and slightly hairy, with spreading branches. Radical leaves obovate 

 or oblong, and stalked ; the stem ones few, narrow-lanceolate or linear, 

 nearly entire. Flowers few, rather larger than in the Harebell C, in 

 a spreading panicle ; the corolla much more open, of a more purplish 

 colour, and divided to the middle into 5 broad, pointed lobes. Cap- 

 sule obconical, erect, and opening in short clefts close under the long, 

 linear segments of the calyx. 



