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Plate 36] CAMPANULA 11
CAMPANULA, Linn.
The Bell-flower.
C. latifolia.
I. Flowers dark purple. Corolla 1-lJ by
lin
2. Leaves linear-lance-shaped C. tennissima.
II. Flowers blue.
1. Corolla 3 in. long and broad, deep
blue. Leaves hairless ...
C. aristata.
2. Corolla J-f in. long. Leaves softly
silvery -hairy
C. argyrotricha.
3. Corolla f-1 in. long, bright blue.
Leaves hairy on both sides
C. cashmiriana.
III. Flowers pale lilac, purple, or greypurple.
Corolla J-J in. long
C. colorata.
IV. Flowers white.
1. Leaves oblong-egg-shaped. Fruit
rounded at the base
C. alsinoides.
Fig. 4. Campanula latifolia,
Linn. Great Bell-flower.
(Lat^folia means broad-leafed.)
Eootstock stout and woody. Stems 2-6 ft. high, glabrous
or downy, stout, furrowed, branched. Radical leaves longstalked,
stiffly hairy, downy below, egg-shaped or broadly
lanceolate, heart-shaped below, stem-leaves stalkless, bluntly
toothed, oblong, egg-shaped. Flowers almost erect, large,
dark purple, lower ones long-stalked, forming racemes, stalks
J-i in. long, bent back in fruit. Calyx-teeth lance-shaped,
almost entire, i-f in. long, minutely hairy. Corolla l-l| by
1 in., lobes sharp-pointed. Fruit a capsule, i by i in., glabrous
or nearly so. Seeds xV in. long.
Flowers. July.
Locality. Gulmarg, woods and rough hill-sides, above
8,000 ft., common; Baltal.
Distribution. Europe, N. and W. Asia, W. Himalaya from
Kashmir to Kumaon, 8,000-11,000 ft.
Fig. 5. Campanula aristata, Wall.
(Aristata means having a long, pointed process, very likely
to the fruit.)
alluding
A h^rless plant. Stems 8-24 in. high, erect, simple.
Eadical leaves long-stalked, elliptic, almost entire ; stem-leaves
linear, Ij by iVi in., toothed. Flowers solitary ;
stalk 4-
10 in. long. Calyx-teeth i in. long, linear. Corolla in. long