CAMPANULA GLOMERATA. CLUSTERED-BELL
FLOWER.
CAMPANULA glomerata; caule angulato simplici, floribus sessilibus, capitülo terminäli, foliis ob-
longo-ovatis crenatis rugosis; radicalibus basi cordatis.
CAMPANULA domerata. Linn. Sp. Pl.p-. 235. Huds. Angl. p. 96. L ig h tf Scot. p. 142. With.
Bot. A rr. ed. 4. ml. 2. p. 2S9. Hoffm. Germ. ed. 2. ml. 1. P . I. p. 102. Willd.
Sp. P L ml. 1. p. 903. Smith FI. B rit. p. 238. Engl. Bot. t. 90. Decand. FI.
Fr. ed. 3. ml. 3. p. 70S. FI. Gall. Syn. p. 253. Pers. Syn. PL ml. 1. p . 190:
Alton Hort. Kezv. ed. 2. ml. 1. p. 349. Hook. FL Scot. P . I. p. 75.
CAMPANULA caule simplici aspero, foliis amplexicaulibus, floribus capitatis. Hall. Helv. n. 635.
CAMPANULA pratensis flore conglomerate. Little Throatwort or Canterbury Bells. Raii Syn.p. 9,77.
Dut. Rondhoofdige Klokjes. Fr. Ganteline d’Angleterre. Germ. Die Zusümmergedr'dngte, arg'e-
häiifte Glockenblume. Russ. Priloschnqja trawa. Swed. Mosis Rosor.
Class a n d Or d e r . PEN TA N D R IA MONOGYNIA.
[N a tu r a l O r d e r . CAMPANU LACEjE, Juss., Decand., Hook.']
G e n . Ci ia R. Corolla campanulata. Filamenta basi dilatata. Stigma trifidum. Capsula bi- tri-ioculafis, poris
lateralibus debiscens.
G eN. Ch a r . Corolla campanulate. Stamens with the filaments broader at the base. Stigma trifid. Capsule
two- to three-celled, opening with lateral pores.
Ra d ix perennis, subrepens, lignosa, fibrosa.
Ca u l is bi- triuncialis ad pedalem, simplex, erectus, an-
gulatus, scabriusculus.
FOLIA oblongo-ovata, remota, rugosa, scabra, margine
crenata, subtus pallida, venosa; inferiora longiora,
pedunculata; superiorasessilia, subamplexicaulia;
radicalia basi cordata.
F lo-re s plerumque terminates, erecti) capitati, numerosi,
violacei, pauci axillares, glomerati, omnes brac-
teis late-ovatis scabriusculis suffulti.
Ca ly x quinquefidus, subpubescens, laciniis erectis acu-
minatis.
Corolla campanulata, limbo quinquefido patente, ex-
tus parce pilosa.
St am in a quinque: Filamenta alba, basi dilatata, margine
ciliata: Antherse lineares, tortuosas.
PlSTILLUM: Germen inferum, angulatum: Stylus lon-
gus, cylindraceus, pubescens: Stigma bi- trifidum.
Root perennial, inclined to creeping, woody, fibrous.
St em from two or three inches to a foot in height,
simple, erect, angular, roughish.
L eaves oblongo-ovate, distant, rugose, rough, their
margin crenated, pale beneath, veined; the lower
■ - ones the longest, growing upon foot-stalks; the
upper ones sessile, somewhat embracing the stem;
the radical ones heart-shaped at their bases.
F lowers mostly terminal, erect, collected into a head,
numerous, violet-coloured, a few are axillary,
clustered, all furnished with broadly ovate roughish
bractea;.
Ca ly x five-cleft, subpubescent, with the segments erect
acuminate.
Corolla campanulate, with the limb five-cleft patent,
externally slightly hairy.
Stam e n s fiv e : Filaments white, dilated at the base,
ciliated at the margin : Anthers linear, twisted.
P is t il : Germen inferior, angled : Style long, cylindrical,
pubescent: Stigma bi- trifid.
Fig. 1. Dwarf variety of Campanula glomerata, nat. size. Fig. 2. A single flower with its bractea. Fig. 3. Stamens,
with the style and stigma '.-^-magnified.
Campanula glomerata is a plant almost wholly confined to dry and principally chalky pastures; in such situations
being tolerably common throughout the kingdom. The great chalky plains of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire,
and the downs of the southern counties of England, abound with it. I t is less common in Scotland,
where it is Chiefly peculiar to the eastern coast.
In point of size no species is more variable than the present one. Its usual height is from six to twelve inches.
Sometimes it attains to two feet; at others I have seen it not exceeding that number of inches, when growing in a
very poor and dry soil. Such a specimen I have delineated at figure 1, and it was a similar plant that Withering
described in the earlier editions of his Botanical Arrangement, under thejitle of Gentiana collina, a mistake which
he subsequently corrected.
I t blossoms in July and August. Ray mentions its occurring occasionally with white flowers.
The larger specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Graves from Boxhill in Surry, and is rather more luxuriant
than when found growing in more exposed situations.