CL, v.] 8. PHYTEUMA SPICATUM, 



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Geographical Distribution. 



This species is found throughout the whole of Germany, 

 Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Upper Italy, and France. 

 It does not grow either in Great Britain or Denmark (the 

 German States excepted), or in Sweden and Russia. As lit- 

 tle does it appear to exist further south than the 44° N. 

 Lat., since it is neither found in Sicily nor Spain, neither in 

 Greece nor in Tauris. 



Synmiymes and Figures. 



Rapunculum sylvestre, Trag, p. 277. a. (ed. 1551.) 

 Rapunculum alopecuron. Dodon. 165. Barrel^ ic. 89<^. 



alopecuroides, Clus. Hist. 2. 171. 

 Rapuntium majus, Lohel. Hist. 178. ic. 329. Gerard^ Einac, 



453. 



Rapunculus major, Dodon. Dalcch. 641. 



Rapunculus V. nemorosus 1. Tabern. 794. 



Rapunculus spicatus, C. Bauh. Pin. 92. (R. spicatus cceru- 



leus, Co Bauh. Prodr. 32, is evidently Ph. betonicae- 



folium.) J. Bauh, Hist. 2. 809. Parkin's Theatr. 648. 



Tourn. Inst. 113. ) 

 Rapunculus corniculatus, folio urticse Moris, sect. 5. t. 5= 



Rap. corn, spica longiore, Riv. Irr. Monop. Hall, Hist 



Stirp. n. 684. 

 Phyteuma spicata, Linn. Fl. Dan. 362. Sehk. t. 39. 



Affiiiities of the Genus. 



When we compare the most important organs, in particu- 

 lar the structure of the filaments, the form of the capsule and 

 of the seed, we cannot but be struck with the resemblance of 

 this genus to the Campanula. But the distinction between 

 them lies in this, that the lacinias of the corolla are at first 

 imited at the top, that two stigmata are found, and that the 

 capsule consists of two loculi ; whilst, in the Campanula^ 

 there are three stigmata, and three locuii in the capsule. 

 But these, and some related genera, constitute a peculiar 



