Meonstoke : Dr. Pui.teney. With white flowers about Buriton.: Dr. Pul- 
tf.ney. — Kent; Bacon Hill: Black stone. — Middlesex; Between Kingsbury 
and Harrow ; and between Harrow and Pinner: Dt.Martyn. — Surrey ; Chalky 
pastures near Leatherhead, Croydon, and other parts of the county, plentifully : 
Hudson, 1778. Near Leatherhead: Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. 1833. About 
chalk-pits near Dorking, and in fields near Leatherhead : N. J. Winch, Esq. 
On a high bank just before you reach M ickleham, on the left. About Coulsdon ; 
Box Hill: FI. Metro]). — On Epsom Downs; and near Chipstead: Mr. E. 
Forster, jun. Towards Hedley ; and near Cheam : Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. 
Old chalk-pits near Ashstead : Mr. W. Pampein, jun. — Mr. Pamplin informs 
me, that it has become scarce in this locality ; that when he botanized that place 
in 1833, he could find but a single specimen. — Sussex; On the Downs: Ray, 
1690. Near Eastbourne : W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. in Keiv Bot. Guide. — About 
Brighton : Sir T. G. Cullum. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root long and woody, branching near the crown into several 
divisions, each bearing a tuft of petiolated, smooth, veiny, crenated 
leaves ; the earliest heart-shaped ; the next egg-spear-shaped. 
Stems solitary, upright, from 6 inches to a foot or more high, sim- 
ple, somewhat angular, smooth, leafy. Leaves on the lower part 
of the stem egg-spear-shaped, crenated, and, like the radical ones, 
on long petioles ; those on the upper part egg-shaped or spear- 
shaped, sessile and fringed at the base. Flowers of a most beautiful 
brilliant blue, numerous, inodorous, sessile, forming a round head, 
accompanied by several close, egg-spear-sbaped, leafy bracteas (see 
figs. 1 & 2). Corolla divided to the base into 5 strap-shaped, 
spreading segments (see fig. 3), which, in the bud, cohere together, 
forming a curved horn, and separating first at their lower part (see 
fig. 2). As the capsules ripen, the head (fig. 7.) becomes oval, and 
the parts of the flower , after lasting long in a faded state, are finally 
deciduous, except the fringed calyx, which is permanent ; and, 
when the seed is ripe, spreads in a stellated manner. — The whole 
herb is milky, but not acrid. 
The drawing for the accompanying plate was made from a plant kindly pre- 
sented to me by my much esteemed friend, Mr. John Smith, Tailor, of Beau- 
mont Buildings, Oxford. Mr. Smith is an ardent lover of flowers, and his 
garden, which is only a few yards square, contains a great number of rare and 
curious hardy plants, chiefly those of small growth, all in an excellent state of 
cultivation. 
The Campanula'ceje are dicotyledonous herbaceous plants or under shrubs, 
yielding a white milky juice. Their leaves are without stipules, and are almost 
always alternate, simple, usually toothed or crenated ; the radical ones often 
different from the cauline ones. Their /lowers are single, racemose, panicled, 
spicate or glomerate, usually blue or white, very rarely yellow. The calyx is 
superior, and permanent ; usually of 5, but sometimes of from 3 to 8, lobes. The 
corolla is mouopetalous, regular, deciduous, or permanent, 5, or sometimes 
3- to 8-lobed, rarely of 5 petals with broad connivent claws. The stamens are 
definite, and, like the corolla, inserted in the margin of the disc of the ovary, and 
combined with it, distinct from the corolla, but equal in number to its segments, 
and alternating with them. The anthers are 2-celled, distinct, with round 
pollen. The ovary is inferior, with 2 or more many-seeded cells; a simple 
style ; and a stigma which is either simple, or of as many lobes as there are 
cells to the ovary. The fruit is a dry, many-seeded capsule, crowned by the 
withered calyx and corolla, and opening by lateral irregular apertures, or by 
valves at the apex, always loculicidal. The seeds are numerous, small, and 
attached to a placenta in the axis. The albumen is fleshy • the embryo slender, 
and straight, with opposite, egg-shaped or roundish, small, foliaceous cotyledons. 
All the plants of this family are pretty, and some of them are highly orna- 
mental. The roots of Campanula Rapunculus are used as a vegetable, under 
the name of Rampion. 
