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hedges and open woods, or in moist situations among grass and 

 other plants. 



C. rotundifolia. L. Hair Bell, or Scotch Bell. A beautiful 

 and slender plant, with fine blue flowers, and radical leaves, 

 roundish ; woods ; June. As the stem leaves are long, linear, 

 and give the plant the appeai'ance of flax, it is sometimes called 

 Flax Bell. 



C. aparinoides. L. Prickly Bell. Has a slender and branch- 

 ed stem, a foot high, with small white flowers ; June ; wet 

 meadows. 



C. perfoliata. L. Clasping Bell Flower. Stem about a 

 foot high, erect, and angular, with cordate, clasping leaves, and 

 not perfoliate in fact ; flowers small, sessile, in the axils of the 

 leaves. 



C. speculum. L. Garden Bell Flower. Has long been 

 cultivated in gardens ; a large branching plant, bearing large, 

 light-blue, and whitish flowers, and having large leaves ; it re- 

 ceives its specific name from the resemblance of the flower, as 

 you look into it, to a mirror or hand speculum, and hence called 

 Venus' Looking Glass ; it is a splendid flower, and a native of 

 southern Europe. 



C. medium. L. Common Bell Flower. Came into Eng- 

 land from Germany in 1597, and thence to our country, under 

 the name of Canterbury Bell ; is a very beautiful flower of differ- 

 ent colors, commonly blue or white, single, and often double ; 

 never can fail to be admired, while plants shall be cultivated ; is 

 a plant very easy to be reared, and its flowers blossom for a long 

 time. 



C. pyramidalis^ L., and some others, have been introduced, 

 and are found in gardens. 



