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ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Biennial or annual. Root slender, not fleshy. Radical leaves 
oblong-oblanceolate, repand-crenate, sub-obtuse, on short indistinct 
winged petioles, decaying before flowering. Stem erect, rather 
stout, slightly hispid in the lower part, copiously corymbosely 
branched in the upper half. Stem-leaves rather numerous, oblong- 
strapshaped, acute ; uppermost ones strapshaped-lanceolate, very 
acute ; all very slightly repand-crenate, slightly hispid or sub- 
glabrous. Inflorescence corymbose, or a very lax panicle ter- 
minated by a corymb, definite, the terminal flower opening first. 
Mowers erect. Peduncles 1-flowered, or with 2 or 3 flowers 
racemosely arranged, slender, very long, with several linear- 
subulate bracteoles at equal distances along it. Calyx-tube gla- 
brous ; segments linear, subulate-serrulate, sub-erect. Corolla 
very widely funnel-shaped, campanulate, with the segments re- 
curved-spreading, rather more than half the length of the whole 
corolla, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute. Stigmas 3. Capsule erect, 
opening by pores at the apex of the calyx-tube. 
In hedges and bushy places. Rather rare. In Dorset, Hants, 
Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Bucks, Derby, Notts, and most of the coun- 
ties on the borders of Wales, where it occurs in Monmouth and 
Breckon ; also in Yorkshire, and reported as far North as West- 
moreland and Durham, but the two last on unconfirmed authority. 
England. Perennial or annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 3 feet high, angular, with the angles hispid, much 
branched above, with the branches elongated-spreading. Stem- 
leaves similar to those of C. Rapunculus, but more acute and more 
uniform in shape, usually considerably smaller and more distant ; 
the flowers, too, in C. patula are fewer, with much longer pedun- 
cles, and arranged in a very lax corymb with spreading branches, 
instead of a panicle or raceme. The corolla is about the same length, 
but much broader and more deeply divided than in C. Rapunculus, 
with the segments widely spreading and reflexed at the tips ; the 
colour is nearly the same. The calyx-segments are not so long, 
broader at the base, and finely serrulate at the margins. The radical 
leaves are very different, being narrower and not abruptly con- 
tracted at the base, and the root is never thickened and fleshy as in 
the Ptampion. 
C. patula has been compared with C. rotundiiblia ; but I fail to 
perceive any close resemblance between the two species. 
Spreading Rell-jlower. 
French, Campanula Eiaiee. German, Ausgebreitete Glockenblume. 
