CAMPANOLACE.E. 



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Flowers few and large, the lower ones in the axils 

 of leaves longer than themselves. 

 Lower stem-leaves stalked, but tapering at the 



base 3. Giant C. 



Lower stem-leaves stalked, and heart-shaped 



at the base 2. Nettle-leaved C. 



Many species of Campanula have long been favourites in our gar- 

 dens for the beauty of their flowers, amongst which the most common 

 are the Canterbury-bell (C. medium), the C.pyramidalis, betoniccefolia, 

 garganica, Carpatkica, persiei folia, etc. The latter species (Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2773), very widely distributed over the continent of Europe, 

 and northern Asia, and easily maintaining itself w T hen once planted, has 

 been inserted in our Floras, but it does not appear to have anywhere 

 spread permanently beyond our gardens. 



Clustered Campanula. Campanula glomerata, Linn. 

 (Fig. 609.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 90.) 



Rootstock short, more or less creeping. 

 Stem firm, erect, a foot high or rather 

 more, and hairy. Radical and lower 

 leaves stalked ; the remainder sessile, 

 broadly lanceolate, clasping the stem by 

 their cordate base, and roughly hairy. 

 Flowers sessile, in small clusters in the 

 upper leaves, the upper ones forming a 

 compact leafy head. Corolla blue, about 

 half an inch long or rather longer. Cap- 

 sules short and broad, crowned by the 

 narrow leafy teeth of the calyx, and 

 bursting open by small clefts at their 

 base. 



In rather dry pastures, throughout 

 continental Europe and Russian Asia, 

 except the extreme north. Extends over 

 the greater part of England, but is ab- 

 sent from some of the western counties as 

 well as from Ireland, and only pene- 

 trates into the south-eastern counties of Scotland. Fl. 

 dry soils it often becomes very much dwarfed. 



Fig. 609. 



summer. In very 



