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Show The 70 / RoR 1 So? It is$ notnot uncommon in the northern counties of England, and flowers in May. Sat Po : : age? As the oxlip conneéts the cow/lip and primrofe, and auricula. cow/lip this plant conneéts the * , r late, C. Bauhine calls it Verba/fculum umbellatum alJ. Bauhine, Primula veris ‘minor HB RB. AL. would BOGnaturally follow here: : but The auricula x as there is no fpecies of that plant native of Engseis F ore ten rat land, we are obliged, by the methodof our efta blithed divifions, to refer that to the fecond fe- * r } “lafe 2 Jj a anera: = ries of this clafs, comprehending the genera: af which there are none natives of Britain, the name of Jobelia. el. BR I T1S H Campanula foliis variis. The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with many fibres. The leaves that rife immediately from it are altogether different fromthofe on the ftalk: they ftand in a {mall tuft, and are fupported on long, flender footftalks: they are of a roundifh figure, but pointed. The ftalks are numerous, round, flender, and ten inches high. The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are long, narrow, and without footftalks. The flowers are very large and blue: they ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and on flender pedicles rifing from the bofoms of the upper leaves: they are hollow, wide, open, and divided pretty deeply into five fharp-pointed fegments. The feed-veffel is oval, fmall, and divided into three cells, in which are numerous little feeds. It is common indryhilly paftures, and flowers Take June. C. Bauhine calls it Campanula minor rotundi- J. Bauhine, Campanula parva an- 2. Little various-leaved Bellflower. Canipanula foliis variis minor. The root is very flender, divided, and full of fibres. Campanula cymbalaria foliis. The root is fmall, thready, and divided. The firft leaves are fmall, tender, angulated, and of a beautiful green: they ftand on long footftalks, and form pretty tuft. Among thefe rife numerous ftalks, which fpread uponthe ground: they are three or four inches long, extremely tender, and ufually of a redith colour. The leaves ftandirregularly on thefe, andrefemble thofe from the root, but that they are fmaller: they are angulated and broad; the corners and the point are fharp, and they are of a frefh and pleafant green. The flowers are fmall, andof a pale blue: they ftand on long and extremely flender footftaiks ; 6. Scabious-headed Rampion. Rapunculus feabiofe caf The root is long, white, woody, divided inte feveral parts, and furnifhed with many The firft leaves are numerous, narrow, { rated, fhatp-pointed, of a pale green, and wi out footftalks. In the midft of thefe rife the ftalks: they are s, flender, divided, and branched, and ‘tly erect; they are a foot or more in height. The leaves ftand irregularly on thefe, and are like thofe from the root, fmall, oblong, narrow, ferrated, hairy, and fharp pointed. and are deep, and cut in at the edgeintofive fegments. xy. Various-leaved Bellflower. folia vulgaris. aA The leaves ftandirregularly on it, and are al. 4. Ivy-leaved Bellflower. appropriated, rapunculus. Linnzus feparates fome of thefe, placing them among his /yagencfa polgygamia monogamia, under SP EIGiRESS: The leaves that rife from it are numerous, fmail, and beautiful: they ftand on fhort pedicles, and are nearly round: they have no point at the end, but area little indented for the reception of the pedicle. Amongthefe rife feveral flender, round, weak ftalks, five inches high, and fearce atall branched. Theleaves on thefe are narrow, longifh, and without footftalks. The flower is large, and there ufually is only one on the fummit of each ftalk: it is wider and fhallower than that of the preceding fpecies, and divided more flightly at the edge: its colour is a pale, but pretty blue. The feed-veffel is oval, and the feed fimall. It is common on the mountains in Wales, and has been met with in fome parts of England. C. Bauhine calls it Campanula minor rotundifolia alpina. The flower is fometimes of a fnow white. 3. Wild Rampion. Campanula foliis anguftis obtufis. 2 The root is long, thick, and has few fibres. oan ; The leaves that rife fromit are numerous, oblong, of a bright green, undividedat the edges, obtufe at the points, and footftalks, The ftalk is firm, upr it, ftriated, and two feet anda half h ; The leaves ftand irreo y on it: they are long, narrow, and obtufe, and are verylightly ferrated. Toward the topof the ftalk there rife many 6 yon together unlike thofe from the root: they are long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, ferr at the edges, and of a pale green; thofe toward the bottom have long footftalks, thofe toward the upper part have none. The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk in 4 round, thick head: they are {mall and purp 5 but are placed clofe together, and are diftin guifhed by the length of the ftyle that grows from the rudiment of the capfule; this turns in the manner of a horn; whence the plant has the name of horned rampions. The feed-veffel is fhort and fmooth. It is a perennial plant, and not uncommon in the hilly paftures of Kent and Suffex, It flowers in Auguft. C. Bauhinecalls it Rapz orbiculari. Others, Rapu tanus, and Rapunculus cor The whole plant is full of a milky juice. five cells. outfide: and in the /peculum Veneris it is long, of a cornered fhape, and divided into Mr. Ray, who keeps up this diftin@ion, calls that genus to which the name of campanula is here HeE eReBsA Le The ftalk is tender, ftriated, hollow, and a foot high. little branches from the bofoms of the leaves, and on thefe ftand the flowers. They are large, blue, ftreaked with purple, anddeeply divided into five fegments. The feed-veffel is oval and fmooth, and the feeds are numerous andfmall. It is wild in many places on the edges of corn- and divided into five fegments “HE fowerconfilts of a fingle petal, andis broad, deep, hollow, fegments ; and is followed at the edge: it ftands in a cup formed of one leaf, divided into five ’ o three cells. by a fingle capfule, which is of an oval figure, fmooth, and dividedint each flower being five, and the Linneus places this among his pentandria monogynia, the threads in under this name, including as {pecies rudiment of the fruit fingle; but he confounds three genera ; of it the rachelium, and fpeculumVeneris. impropriety greater the is there that fo ; numerous fufficiently are The fpecies of campanula alone Thefe are both abundantly other genera. of thofec two them bythe is addition a in his encreafing ‘ . : . 5 and that in a manner fo diftinguifhed by nature 5 the feed-vefiel being of a different form in each; properly campanula, the In mark. generical a eftablifh may determinate, that it properly and fully is fmooth; in the and diftin@ly fo called, we have feen it is oval, and divided into three cells, and hairy on the pracheliumit is, in the fame manner, divided into three cells within; but it is roughor in 2B: R Tet aS Hi fields; but it is alfo kept in gardens for the fake of the root, which fome people eat. C. Bauhine calls it Rapunculus efculentus. Bavhine, Rapunculus vulgaris campanulatus, Bei Neuss BELLFLOWER, CAMPANULA. DsLVAl Sb OgN Ther Thefeed-veffel is fmall, oval, and fmooth. It is more frequent in Devonfhire and Cornwal than in the reft of England, and flowers in May. It loves damp and fhady places. C. Bauhine calls it Campa cymbalariefoliis. J. Bauhine, Campanula folio hederaceo fpecies Cantabrice anguillare. 5. Horned Rampions. Campanula corniculata montana. The rootis long, thick, white, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. Theleaves that firft rife from it are fhort, and almoft round, but pointed at the end, and fome few of them at times oval, or fomewhat oblong : they are placed on long footftalks, and ferrated The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches in round buttons: they are of a pale blue, and very numerous, horned in the manner of the former fpecies, and have a kind of cup under the whole head. Each flower is divided into five fegments, and fucceeded by a feparate capfule, which is fhort and f{mall, and full of minute feeds. It is commonin dry paftures, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Rap ceruleo. at the edges. HEV EST ON «i. OIRELGN 1. Cretic Rampion. Rapunculus foliis pinnalis. The root is long, thick, white, and furnifhed with fibres. The firft leaves are fimple, roundifh, and undivided, and refemble thofe of the various-leaved Bellflower. After thefe rife others, which are pinnated ; each compofed ofthree pairs of {maller leaves fet on a rib, with an odd one at the end, whichis divided into three parts: thefe are of an oval figure, fharp at the points, andferrated at the edges; andare of a pale, but pleafant green, SPE CLES, The ftalk is round, erect, firm, and two foot or more in height: it has a few leaves on it of the fame pinnated form, and toward the top a {pike of flowers. Thefe are of a beautiful purple, and ftand very thick; they are deeply divided into five narrow fegments, and they quickly fade. The feed-veffel is oval, and thefeeds are fmall It is a native of Crete, and flowers in May, after root; thefe C. which the whole plant dies down to the which fends up new leaves in October, and remain greenall winter. Bauhine calls it Rapunculus Creticus feu p |