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xlvii. campanulace.e. [ Phyteuma . 
upper nearly sessile lanceolate acuminate, peduncles axillary 
few-flowered, calyx-segments lanceolate erect, capsule drooping 
with the clefts at the base. E. B. t. 12. 
Woods in England, frequent. %. 7 — 9. — Leaves much like those 
of the nettle, whence its English name. Flowers occasionally white 
in Hampshire. 
8. C. glomerdta L. ( clustered B.) ; stem angular simple nearly 
smooth, leaves scabrous crenate oblong-lanceolate, root-leaves 
petiolate those of the stem semiamplexicaul, flowers sessile 
mostly in a terminal cluster, capsule erect with the clefts at the 
base. E. B. t. 90. 
Dry, principally chalky and clay, pastures, in England. Hilly 
pastures in Scotland ; but confined chiefly to the east side, between 
the Frith of Forth and Montrose. 2/.. 7,8. — Varying much in 
height, from 3 or 4 inches to a foot. Flowers rather large, erect. 
Many slight varieties of this plant are considered to be species by some 
Continental botanists. 
** Cor. campanulate. Capsule somewhat globose, partly superior, the 
free portion opening by 3 — 5 valves. Wahlenbergia. 
9. C. hederdcea L. ( Ivy-leaved B.) ; stem weak filiform, leaves 
all stalked cordate angularly 5-lobed glabrous, peduncles soli- 
tary. E. B. t. 73. Wahlenbetgia Beich. 
In moist shady woods, in the south of England, and the west of 
Scotland; Wales, and Ireland. 22. 7,8. — A most graceful little 
plant, growing in lax tufts like Sibthorpia Eur opera. Peduncles long, 
slender, mostly terminal. Flowers half an inch or more in length, 
at first drooping then erect, pale purplish-blue. Fruit an almost 
globose capsule, three fourths adhering to the calyx, opening,' not at 
the sides, but in the upper free part, between the persistent segments 
of the calyx. 
*** Corolla nearly rotate. Capsule prismatical, elongated opening by 
lateral clefts between the cal. -segments. Specularia. 
10. C. hjhrida L. ( Corn B.) ; stem simple or often branched 
from the base, leaves oblong crenate waved, corolla widely 
spreading shorter than the calyx-segments, capsule triangular. 
E. B. t. 375. Specularia A. DC. 
Corn-fields of a dry and chalky nature, chiefly confined to the 
middle and southern parts of England. Near Gullane, East Lo- 
thian ; Fifeshire. ©. 6 — 9. 
2. Phyteuma Linn. Rampion. 
Cor. rotate in 5 deep linear segments. Filaments dilated at 
the base ; anthers distinct. Stigma 2 — 3-cleft. Caps, of 2 — 3 
cells, bursting at the side. ( Flowers in dense bracteated spikes 
or heads.) — Name: <pvrtvpa (the same as <pvrov), the plant; 
