PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Campanula. 303 
Anglesey. Welsh Bot. On a bank near the windmill at the north 
entrance of Dereham, Norfolk. Rev. R. B. Francis, in FI. Lond. Near 
Guy's Cliff, and by the road side near Leamington, leading to Warwick. 
Perry. E.) B. July—Aug.* 
(C. persicifo'lia. Leaves smooth, slightly serrated; radical ones 
obovate; those of the stem linear-lanceolate, sessile, remote: 
stem cylindrical, very smooth, with few flowers. 
Ft. Dan. 1087— Bull. Fr. t. 367— Ger. Em. 451— Lob. Ic. 327— Clus. v. 
2. 171. 
Stems one and a half to two feet high, pale, more or less leafy. Flowers 
very large, an inch over, blue, erect. Calyx segments lanceolate, entire, 
smooth, and even. 
Peach-leaved Bell Flower. Woods in Scotland. Gathered by Mr. 
G. Don near Cullen, apparently indigenous. Hook. Scot. Sm. Eng. Fl. 
E.) P.July.f 
(2) Leaves rougher and broader. 
C. latifo'lia. Leaves egg-spear-shaped: stem unbranched, cylin¬ 
drical : flowers solitary, on fruit-stalks: fruit pendulous. 
E. Bot. 302—-FY. Dan. 782 (85. E.)--C7ws. ii. 172. 1— Ger. Em. 448. 3— 
Park. 643. 1— H* Ox. v. 3. 27. 
Sometimes four feet high, and very strong in its growth. Stem smooth. 
Leaves either spear-shaped or egg-spear-shaped, almost sessile, rough 
with hairs, irregularly serrated. Flowers erect, but the fruit-stalk when 
ripe bent downwards; and the calyx becomes large and globular at the 
base from the distension of the inclosed capsule. Blossom blue or pale 
red. (It varies with a spreading panicle and smoother leaves. Sm. E.) 
(Var. 2. Flore albo. White flowered. Allesley, near Coventry. Rev. W. 
T. Bree, in Purt. E.) 
Broad-leaved Bell Flower. Giant Throatwort. Thickets and 
hedges. Mountainous parts of the northern counties. Ray. (Woods at 
Newbiggin; and High-gate, Graystock, Cumberland. Hutchinson. E.) 
Clayey parts of Suffolk. Woodward. Woods about Manchester. Mr. 
Caley. (Dick Brook foot-bridge, near Stourport. Mrs. Gardner, in Purt. 
Colin ton and Roslin woods. Maughan, in Grev. Edin. On banks of 
marl at Burton, one mile south of Stafford. On the road from Hales 
Owen Abbey to Birmingham, a mile from the former, on a shivery sand 
rock. E.) P. July—Aug.J 
* The roots are eaten raw in sallads, or boiled like asparagus. In gardens they are 
blanched. 
+ (In gardens the flowers are often double, white, and more numerous than in the 
wild state. E.) 
t The beauty of its flowers frequently procures it a place in our gardens. (Sir Walter 
Scott, in his poem of Rokeby, describes this 
- <e throatwort with its azure bell,” 
as adorning the banks of the Greta, where it divides the manors of Brignell and Scargill. 
E.) The whole plant abounds with a milky liquor. Horses, sheep, and goats eat it. 
The young shoots, stripped of the skin, are boiled and eaten as greens about Kendal. Mr. 
Gough. 
