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C A M P A N U L A hybrida.
Corn Bell-Jiower.
P E N T A N D R 1 A Monogynia.
G en. C har. Cor. belLfhaped, clofed at the bottom
by valves bearing the ftamina. Stigma 3-cleft.
Capfule inferior, opening by lateral pores.
S pec. Char. Stem often branched from the bafe.
Leaves oblong, crenate and undulated. Corolla
rotate, fhorter than the calyx. Capfule prilmatic.
Syn. Campanula hybrida. Linn. Sp. PL 239. Hudf.
FI. An. 97. W ith. Bot. A rr. 219. Relh. Cant.
95. Sibth. Ox. 81.
C. arvenfis eredta, vel Speculum Veneris minus.
Rail Sjn. 278.
S e N T by the Rev. Mr. Hemfted from Cambridgelhire. It
is found alfo in Norfolk and Suffolk, in corn-fields on a chalky
foil, but by no means frequently, flowering towards autumn.
Root fmall, fibrous and annual. Stem nearly ere ft, with a
tendency to branch more or lefs at the bafe as well as in the
upper part, very various in luxuriance, a little zigzag, angular,
roughilh, leafy. Leaves alternate, undulated, fpariilgly crenate,
rough, efpecially on the margin. Flowers terminal, folitary,
feffile among a few leaves. Germen prifmatic, long, roughifti.
Calyx-leaves about half as long as the germen, lanceolate, revolute,
hairy. Corolla very fmall, rotate, half as long as the
calyx-leaves, feldom fully expanded, pale purple. Style and
ftigma club-fhaped, hairy.
Such is the defcription of our plant, which will not be found
to accord exaftly with what Linnteus has faid. His remarks
however agree with his original fpecimen now before us, which
is apparently a cultivated one, with very long linear calyx-leaves,
and a very fmall corolla. The Hem too is upright and fmooth.
From the confideration of many wild as well as cultivated fpeci-
mens of C. Speculum and hybrida, we are perfuaded they are
varieties of each other, and that the calyx-leaves in both are
very variable in length and breadth, as well as the corolla in fize,