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6. Rock Ranipion. 
Cinnpanula petr£a foliis variis. 
The root is long, thick. Tingle, and has few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves (land on long, flcnder foot- 
ftalks, and are of a cordated form, indented at 
the bafc, and fharp-pointed : they are undivided 
at the edges, and of a dufky green. 
The ftalks are nuraerous, lix or eight inches 
high, round, fmooth, and firm. 
The leaves fland irregularly on thefe, and are 
altogether unlike thofe from the root : they are 
long, narrow, and fharp-polnted, not atall indent- 
ed at the bafe, and undivided at the edges. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a bright blue : 
they ftand in fmall oval heads : one of thefe heads 
terminates each ftalk, and confifts of a vaft mul- 
titude of flowers. 
The feed-veflel is oval, fmali, and fmooth. 
It grows among rocks in Germany and Italy. 
Alpinus calls it Rapuncidiis petraus, and others 
follow him exactly. 
7. Serrated Rampion. 
Campc.mihz foliis angufiis profunde ferratis. 
The root is long, thick, white, and undivided, 
The leaves which firfl: rife from it are (hort, 
fomewhat broad, deeply ferrated, and without 
footftalks. 
There follow thefe another fet of leaves, which 
are alfo without footftalks ; but they are longer 
and narrower, and more deeply ferrated. 
In the centre of thefe rifes the ftalk, which is 
round, firm, upright, and two foot and a half 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are 
Rke the fecond from the root, very narrow, long, 
and deeply ferrated, and without footftalks. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk, and 
on long footllalks rifin^ from the bofoms of the 
upper leaves : they are large and blue, deeply 
divided into live fegments, and open. 
The leed-vefTel is oval and Tmali. 
It is not uncommon in the woods of Germany, 
and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine caHs it Rapuncidus nemorofus anguf- 
tifoUus major majore fiore. 
8. Oval-leaved BeiJflower. 
Campanula foliis ovatis ferratis. 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The firft leaves are roundilh and ferrated : they 
iland on long footftalks, and are not vrry nume- 
rous. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre of the tuft, and 
is round, ere(51:, and but little branched. 
The leaves ftand alternately on long footftalks, 
and are of an oval figure, pointed at the ends, 
and ftiarply ferrated. Thofe toward the lower 
jnrc arc broader and fliorter, thofe toward the 
upper, narrower and longer ; and juft at the top 
there are a few of a different form, oblong, with- 
out footftalks, and not ferrated. 
7'he flowers are large, and of a pale blue: 
they ftand on long and flender footftalks about 
the top of the plant, and are not very numerous. 
The feed-veficl is oval and fmooth. 
It is frequent in the Harts foreft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Campanula foliis fuhrolmidis. 
When it grows on barren ground the flowers are 
often white. 
9. Broad-leaved cluflercd Bellflower. 
Campanula latifolia fiorihus co?fertis. 
The root is long, flender, whi:e, and hung with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and placed 
on long, redifli footftalks : they are not dented at 
the bafe, but are broadeft there, and gradually 
narrower to the point ; and they are a little hairy. 
The ftalk rifes in the centre, and is round, 
flender, not at all branched, pale coloured, and 
fomewhat hairy: it is about ten inches high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it : they are 
like thofe from the root, but narrower, ftiarp- 
pointed, not dented at the edges, but a little 
hairy : thofe on the lower part have fliort foot- 
ftalks, the others none. 
The flowers ftand in a thick clufter at the top 
of the ftalk : they are fmall, and of a beautiful 
blue, deep, and divided into five fegments at the 
edge. 
The feed-vefl'el is oval, fmooth, and divided 
into three parts and full of fmall feed. 
It is a native of France and moft other parts 
of Europe. 
C, Bauhine calls it Raptaiculus latifolius umhel- 
latus. In Engiifh it is commonly called Umbel- 
lated rampion. 
Moft of the fpecics of bellflower are efculent 
plants, particularly the principal of the rampions. 
The roots of feveral of thefe are eaten in fpring, 
in the manner of radiflies, raw or boiled, and they 
are kept in fome gardens for that purpofe: they 
are tender, full of a milky juice, and well tafted. 
They are faid to increafe milk in the brcafts of 
nurfes, but that is an idle conceit, grounded only 
on the milky look of their own juice. 
The common various deaved hdljlower is cele- 
brated in fome places as a cure for the fcurvy : 
they take the juice in fpring, with that of 
cleavers, water crefs, and brooklimc. Whenfo 
many things of known virtue are ufed together 
it is not eafy to fay whether fuch an addition 
has much efficacy. 
The root of any of the rampion kinds, if eaten 
in due quantity, operate by urine; and they are 
fuppofed to create an appetite. We do not ufe 
them much in England, but they are in great 
efteem in France and Italy. They cut them into 
thin flice^, and eat them with oil and vinegar. 
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