CAMPANULACEA]. 



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In the woods of northern Europe and 

 Russian and central Asia, and extend- 

 ing to the Arctic regions, but becomes 

 rather a mountain plant in southern 

 Europe. Pretty frequent in southern 

 Scotland, and northern England, but 

 apparently shunning the extreme coun- 

 ties at both ends of Great Britain, and a 

 very doubtful native of Ireland. Fl. 



Fig. 611. 



4. Creeping Campanula. Campanula rapunculoid.es, Linn. 



(Fig. 612.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1369.) 



Rootstock more creeping than in the 

 other species, with a simple erect stem 

 1 to 2 feet high. Lower leaves on long 

 stalks, and heart-shaped ; the upper ones 

 small, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers droop- 

 ing, not so large as in the last two species, 

 but varying in size ; they grow singly 

 in the axils of small floral leaves, forming 

 long, terminal, simple racemes. Capsules 

 nearly globular, crowned by the linear 

 or narrow-lanceolate lobes of the calyx, 

 and opening by small clefts at the base. 



In open woods, in central and southern 

 Europe and western Asia. Having been 

 early cultivated in gardens, and when 

 once planted in a genial soil becoming 

 often difficult of extirpation, it is doubt- 

 ful how far it may be indigenous in the 

 more northern stations given for it. In 

 Britain, admitted as a native of a few 



localities distantly scattered over England and Scotland, but evidently 

 with much doubt. FL summer. 



