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C AMP ANUL A ladfolia.
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Giant Bell-flower.
P E N T AN D R I A Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. bell-Ihaped, clofed at the bottom
by valves bearing the ftamina. Stigma 3-cleft.
Capf. inferior, opening by lateral pores.
Spec. Char. Leaves ovato-lanceolate. Stem unbranched,
round. Flowers folitary, pedunculated.
Fruit drooping.
Syn. Campanula latifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 233. LludJ.
FI. An. 96. With. Bot. A r r . 218. Relh. Cant.
Suppl. 2. 10. Lightf. Scot. 141.
C. maxima foliis latiffimis. Rail Syn. 276.
I n the north of England, and in Scotland according to Mr.
Lightfoot, this fpecies of Campanula is not unfrequent, though
rare in the fouthern counties. It grows in fhady moift places,
about the bafes of mountains. Mr. Rofe obferved it in Forehoe
wood near Kimberley, Norfolk. Our wild fpecimen grew near
Dunftable, where it was firft remarked and afcertained by our
obliging correfpondent the Rev. Mr. Abbot, for many botanifts
overlook this plant for C. Trachelium.
Root perennial, very milky as well as the whole herb. Stem
3 or 4 feet high, eredff, Ample, cylindrical or very Rightly angular,
leafy. Leaves alternate, nearly felfile, large, roughilh,
paler beneath, doubly ferrated. From the bofoms of the upper
ones arife folitary naked flower-ftalks, fcarcely ever bearing more
than one flower; we have not found the pair of “ leaf-fcales,”
or rather bra£tese mentioned in the Bot. Arr. Calyx fmooth,
ferrated. Corolla large and handfome. The antherae are not
large, but afford plenty of pollen, which copioufly adheres to
the ftyle.
This is fometimes cultivated in gardens. It flowers in Auguft,
and is rather ornamental; occafionally varying to white or pale
rofe-colour.