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THE CAMPANULA FAMILY. 



Fig. 606. 



spreading branches. Leaves linear or 

 lanceolate, waved on the edges, and more 

 or less hairy. Flower- heads, in the Brit- 

 ish variety, about half an inch diameter, 

 on long terminal peduncles ; theinvolu- 

 cral bracts broadly ovate, the flowers of 

 florets small, of a rather pale blue, on 

 short pedicels. 



In heathy pastures, on banks, etc., 

 throughout Europe, except the extreme 

 north, and eastward to the Caucasus. 

 Extends almost all over England and 

 Ireland, but very local in Scotland. Fl. 

 summer. On the Continent the size of 

 the flowers and the whole habit of the 

 plant are very variable. 



III. RAMFION. PHYTETJMA. 



Flowers (in the British species) in compact terminal heads or spikes. 

 Corolla when in bud cylindrical and curved, opening more or less into 

 5 long linear segments. Anthers free and distinct. Style cleft at the 

 top into 2 or 3 stigmatic lobes. Capsules crowned by the spreading 

 teeth of the calyx, and bursting at the sides. 



A small genus, spread over Europe and Western Asia, but chiefly 

 in the great central mountain-chains, ascending to great elevations. It 

 is readily known by the long, curved flower-buds. 



Flower-heads globular 1. Round-headed R. 



Flower-heads oblong, becoming at length cylindrical . . 2. Spiked R. 



1. Round-headed Rampion. Phyteuma orbiculare, Linn. 



(Fig. 607.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 142.) 



Rootstock thick or shortly creeping, with simple, erect or slightly 

 decumbent stems, 6 to 18 inches high. The early radical leaves are 

 ovate and cordate, on long stalks, the subsequent ones and lower stem v 

 leaves stalked, but narrow-oblong or lanceolate ; the upper ones few, 

 narrow, and sessile. Flowers of a deep-blue, in a globular terminal 



