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C A M P A N U L A rotundifolia,
Round-leaved Bell-flower.
PENTANDRIA Mvnogynia.
G e n . C h a r . Cor. b e ll-ftiap ed , d o le d at the b o ttom
b y valves b e a r in g th e ftamina. Stigma 3 -c le ft .
Capfule in fe rio r , o p en in g b y lateral pores.
S p e c * C h a r * R a d ic a l leaves k id n e y - th ap ed 5 up p er
one s linea r.
S y n . C am p an u la ro tun difo lia. Linn. Sp. PI. 332.
Sm. F l. B rit. 235. Hudf. 93. With. 241.' Hull. 5 2.
Relb. 9 3 . Sibth. 80. A bbot.48. Curt. Loud. fa fc. 4.
t. 21. Rail Syn. 277.
j L OTJNG botanifts are not unfrequeiitly puzzled with the
hame of this Campanula, if they find it (as is frequently the
cafe) with only the linear leaves remaining; and indeed when
it grows on a rich foil among bufhes, the round leaves foon
difappear, and a profufion of long narrow ones only clothes the
Item. It however teaches an ufeful leflon, that We ought never
to decide upon Nature’s works from ill-chofen or folitary
fpecimens, or hafty obfervatiorts.
It is one of our prettied wild flowers, found every Where on
heaths, mouldering walls, and bufhy borders of fields, flowering
from July to the end of the feafon. The root is branched and
perennial. Herbage fmooth, dark green. Stems upright,
branched. Lower leaves on long footdalks, kidney or heart-
fhaped, ferrated; thofe above them ovate or oblong j the red
linear, feflile, modly entire. Flowefr-dalks panicled, {lender,
bra&eated. Flowers drooping; quivering to every breeze, fky-
blue, rarely white. Teeth of the calyx entire, fpreading;
in the alpine Variety eredt, but we can fcarcely find that or
any other mark hitherto obferved diffident to eonditute it a
different fpecies.
W e fufpedt poets fometimes take this for the hare-bell. We
have fomewhere read of
“ The trembling rye-grafs and the hare-bell blue”
growing on “ mouldering turrets,” which could fcarcely be the
real hare-bell, (fee our t. 377); and probably the fuppofed rye-
grafs might rather b e Bromus Jlerilis.