CAMPANTJLACEJE. 5 
involucre roundish or sub - rhomboidal, ovate, acute, entire or 
crenulated or rarely with a few blunt teeth. 
In sandy fields, commons, and roadsides. Not uncommon in 
England ; in Scotland confined to the West coast, where it reaches 
North to Orkney and Shetland, the only locality on the East side 
of the island being in Moray. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Biennial or annual. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Root a long tap-root, producing a rosette of radical leaves nar- 
rowed towards the base, and almost always decayed before the 
plant flowers. Stems numerous, 3 inches to 2 feet high, simple or 
slightly branched, the lateral ones decumbent at the base. Stem- 
Leaves thickly disposed, £ to § inch long. Peduncles (or rather the 
leafless portion of the stem or branch below the flower-head) 2 to 6 
inches long. Elower-heads } 2 to 1 inch across. Elowers rather longer 
than the involucre, lilac-blue, the very slender segments separate 
nearly to the base of the corolla. Capsule globular-ovoid, concealed 
under the mass of withered corolla) through which the elongated 
rather stiff sepals appear. Plant pale-green, with the leafy part of 
the stem and leaves hispid ; the peduncles always, and the bracts of 
the involucre usually glabrous. 
Annual Sheep' s-bit. 
French, Jasione de Montague. German, Berg Jasione. 
This little plant has so much the aspect of a Scabiosa, that it is often called 
" Sheep's Scabious," and by Linnseus was classed with the Compositae. 
GENUS IIL—V H Y T E U M A. Linn. 
Calyx-limb 5-partite. Corolla cylindrical and curved upwards 
in bud, divided almost to the base into 5 linear segments, which 
remain long coherent at the summit, but are at last spreading. 
Stamens 5 ; filaments dilated at the base ; anthers free. Style 
filiform, hairy ; stigma cleft at the apex into 2 or 3 rather short 
sti.'^matiferous lobes. Capsule ovoid, opening by 2 or 3 valves 
at t he sides, or at the base by longitudinal slits. 
Perennial herbs, often with enlarged root-fibres. Radical leaves 
stalked ; stem-leaves smaller, sessile or sub-sessile. Elowers rather 
small, blue, purple, or straw-colour, in heads or spikes. 
The name of this genus of plants seems to have been one adopted by Dioscorides, 
and is said to have been derived from ijivrtvio (jphuteua), I plant or sow, from its great 
increase and growth. 
