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THE CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



2. Nettle-leaved Campanula. 



Linn. (Fu 



Campanula Trachelium, 

 . 610.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 12.) 



A variable species, sometimes ap- 

 proaching in appearance the smaller 

 specimens of the giant C, sometimes 

 with the npper flowers almost contracted 

 into a head or cluster like the clustered 

 C. Lower leaves on long stalks, al- 

 ways broadly heart-shaped and coarsely 

 toothed ; the upper ones small and ovate- 

 lanceolate. Flowers large, two or three 

 together in short leafy racemes in the 

 npper axils or at the summit of the stem, 

 or sometimes solitary, as in the giant C; 

 the calyx stiffly hairy, with broadly- 

 lanceolate segments. 



Its stations and geographical range are 

 nearly the same as those of the giant C, 

 extending all across Eussian Asia, but 

 it appears to be more generally diffused 

 in western Europe. It is also more com- 

 mon in England, but very doubtfully 

 indigenous in Scotland or Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 610. 



3. Giant Campanula. Campanula latifolia, Linn. 

 (Fig. 611.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 302.) 



A tall, handsome species, with nearly simple stems ; the leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, pointed and toothed, often 6 inches long and at least 2 inches 

 broad, all narrow at the base, and the lower ones stalked. Flowers 

 large, blue or white, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, forming 

 a leafy raceme, the uppermost exceeding their leaves. Capsules short, 

 crowned by the long-lanceolate calyx-segments, and opening by short 

 clefts at the base. 



