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lilac, purple at the base, or wholly purple. Inflorescence with the 
lowest flowers opening first, but the terminal flower, although not 
first, frequently expands before 5 or G of the uppermost lateral 
flowers. In very luxuriant specimens, flowers are also developed 
from the axils of the 2 minute bractcoles on the peduncle. Calyx- 
tube with only a lew hairs towards the base ; segments much longer 
than the tube, glabrous, ciliated, and frequently callously serrate 
on the margins. Leaves rather soft. 
The form with the calyx-tube hispid I have not seen from 
Britain. 
Giant Bell-flower. 
nuila a Larges Ftuilks. German, Brcitblattrige Gloclcenblume. 
The beauty of tin's plant often procni'es for it a place in our gardens ; and we 
remember Sir Walter Scott's description of it as the " throat-wort with its azure bell" 
adorning the banks of the Greta. 
SPECIES IV.— CAMPANULA RAPUNCULIOIDSS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXIX. 
Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIX. Tab. MDC. Fig. 2. 
Billot, EL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2879. 
Eootstock elongated, slender, extensively creeping, sending 
down fleshy fibres, and emitting very long creeping subterranean 
stolons. Stems rather stout, erect, puberulent, simple or very 
slightly branched. Radical leaves on long stalks, ovate, cordate ; 
stem-leaves similar ; the lower ones sub-cordate ; the succeeding 
ones with short winged petioles ; the upper ones sessile and lance- 
olate ; all acute, irregularly doubly-crenate or crenate-serrate, 
slightly pubescent on the veins, and puberulent. Inflorescence a 
raceme, indefinite, the lowest flowers of the raceme opening first, 
the others succeeding in regular order. Flowers drooping, shortly 
stalked, 1 terminal, and all the rest axillary. Peduncles 1-flow- 
ered, with 2 small strapshaped bracteoles above the middle. 
Calyx-tube puberulent ; segments strapshaped, reflexed soon after 
flowering. Corolla widely campanulate, with the segments slightly 
recurved, rather more than one-third the length of the whole 
corolla, ovate, sub-acute. Stigmas 3. Capsule nodding, opening 
by pores at the base of the calyx-tube. 
A weed in cultivated fields, and said also to occur in woods and 
shady places. Rare and local. I have only seen it in the neigh- 
bourhood of Balwearei, near Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, where it is a 
troublesome weed ; it is reported also from the counties of Bedford, 
