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PENT AND RIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. bell-shaped, closed at the bottom
by valves bearing the stamina. Stigma 3-cleft,
Capsule inferior, opening by lateral pores.
Spec. Char. Leaves heart-shaped ; the uppermost
lanceolate. Stem branched. Flowers scattered,
drooping towards one side. Calyx reflexed.
Syn. Campanula rapunculoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 234.
Sm. FI. B rit. 231.
C. repens, flore minore cæruleo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 806.
C. hortensis, Rapunculi radice repente, Moris. Hist,
v. 2. 4 6 0 . sect. 5. t. 3.ƒ . 32.
I n the herbarium of Buddie, preserved in the British Museum,
are specimens of this Campanula said to have been gathered in
some woods in Oxfordshire, among yew trees. Dr. Skrimshire
having found the same at Blair in Scotland, apparently wild,
confirms it to us as a British plant. It may in other places
have been overlooked as C. Trachelium, though essentially different
in many respects. We have delineated a garden specimen,
not having seen a recent wild one.
This plant flowers in July and August, and is perennial,
increasing considerably by its creeping roots. The radical
leaves much resemble those of violets, and are heart-shaped,
crenate, roughish, on long footstalks. The lower stem-leaves
are narrower, and have shorter stalks; the upper grow gradually
more lanceolate and sessile. The stem is about a foot
high, more or less branched, angular, rough with deflexed
hairs. Flowers pendulous, on short simple solitary stalks,
from the bosoms of the small upper leaves. Calyx rough;
its segments reflexed, entire. Corolla of a deep blue, hairy,
mostly larger than that of C. Rapunculus, t. 283.
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