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C. primulaefolia and C. spicata will be found in the supplementary list, p. 650.
C. primulaefolia and C. spicata will be found in the supplementary list, p. 650.
Group I. Kitchen-garden vegetable: roots radish-like: a salad plant.
Group I. Kitchen-garden vegetable: roots radish-like: a salad plant.
C. abietina, Griaeb. Rare tufted rockery plant, with slender, wiry sts. 9-15 in. high: fls. light blue, in loose branching spikes. July, Aug. E. Eu.—C. acutangula, Ler. & Lev. Dwarf, with trailing sta. from a rosette of ivy-like lvs.: st.-lvs. small, rounded and toothed: fls. solitary on each St., rather large and star-like, purple-blue. N.Spain. G.C.III. 50:220.—C. amabilis, Leicht.=C. phyctidocalyx.-C. Beaverdiana, Fomine. Slender, to 2 ft., glabrous or finely hairy: lower lvs. oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse, crenate-serrate: fls. few or solitary, slender-pedicelled, blue, 1¼ in. across. B.M. 8299. Caucasus.—C. calycanthema, Hort.=C. Medium var. calycanthema.—C. cenisia. Linn. A rare rock-plant from Mt. Cenis and other mts. of the Alps, with solitary deep blue fls. on sts. 2 in. high. Root-lvs. obovate, obtuse; st.-lvs. ovate-oblong; all lvs. sessile-entire: calyx hirsute, the lobes linear-lanceolate, a half shorter than the deeply 5-cut, spreading corolla.—-C. grandiflora, Jacq.=Platycodon.—C. Hederacea. Linn.=Wahlenbergia.—C. imeretina, Rupr. Dwarf, branching, resembling C. sibirica: lvs. small: fls. violet-blue. Caucasus.— C. incurva, Aucher= C. Leutweinii.—C. kolenatiana, Mey. Perennial, 9 in. or less: lvs. mostly radical ovate, about 1 in. long: fls. in long-stalked raceme, bluish violet, 1 in. long, inside hairy. Caucasus.—C. laciniata, Linn. Robust much-branched biennial, 2 ft., somewhat pubescent: lower lvs. 8 in. long by 2½ in. broad, deeply cut: fls. about 2 in. across, upwards of 1 in. long, pale blue. Greece. G.C. III. 40:165. —C. Leutweinii, Heldr. (C. incurva, Aucher). Perennial, simple, 1 ft. or more: lvs. cordate, white-downy, crenate, rounded at apex: fls. pale blue, 1 ½ in. long. Greece.—C. Marieaii, Hort.=Platycodon.—C. michauxoidet, Boiss. Tall-growing: fls. bluish white,the segma. recurved. Asia Minor.—C. Lamarckii, D. Dietr.= Adenophora Lamarckii.—C. nitida, Ait.=C. planiflora.—C. petraea. Linn. Biennial, with ascending st., hairy, 6-12 in.: lower lvs. lance-oblong, narrowed to the base, toothed; upper lvs. ovate and sessile: fls. small, pale yellow, in dense terminal and axillary heads. N. Italy.—C. phyctidocalyx, Boiss. & Noe (C. amabilis, Leicht.). Like C. Rapunculus in habit, 2-2½ ft.: lvs. lanceolate or cordate: fls. 10-12 in raceme, dark blue with black styles, resembling those of C. persicifolia. Armenia.—C. planiflora. Lam. (C. nitida, Ait.). Glabrous: height 3-9 in.: st. simple: lvs. sessile, leathery, shining; root-lvs. crowded in a dense rosette, ovate or obovate-obtuse, crenulate, 1½ in. long; st.-lvs. linear-lanceolate, acute, nearly entire: fls. blue or white, with double varieties, in spicate racemes; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, broad, erect. a third shorter than the broadly bell-shaped or saucer-shaped corolla. Not American, though commonly so stated. Habitat unknown. J.H. III. 33:283.—Rock-plant, for sunny position.—C. primulaefolia, Brot. St. hairy, simple, 1-3 ft.: lowest lvs., lanceolate, st.-lvs. oblong: fls. blue, downy at bottom, nearly rotate. Portugal. B.M. 4879.—-C. Raddeana, Trautv. Perennial, glabrous, 1 ft.: lvs. cordate, long-stalked: fls. large, dark purple. Caucasus.—C. speciosa, Pourr., is a rare species. Most of the plants passing under this name are likely to be C. glomerata. B.M. 2649 is C. glomerata var. speciosa. C. thyrsoidea, Lapeyr., is referred here.—C. Speculum, Linn.=Specularia.—-C. spicata, Linn. Biennial, 1-2 ft.: lvs. very narrow, nearly or quite entire: fls. 1-3, sessile, in a long interrupted spike, blue. Eu. J.H. III. 47:267.—C. sulphurea, Boiss. Annual: fls. size of those of C. rotundifolia, pale straw-color out-aide and sulfur-yellow inside. Palestine.—C. urticifolia. This name is now abandoned. Plants are likely to be C. Trachelium.
Wilhelm Miller.
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