BELL-FLOWER. Ill 



BELL-FLOWER. Campanula, 



Natural Order Campanacecc. Campamdacece, Juss. A 

 Genus of the Pentandria Moiwgynia Class. 



The humming bees, that hunt the golden dew, 



In summer's heat on tops oijioicers feed, 



And creep within their Bells to suck the balmy seed. 



DllYDEN-. 



The name of Campanula, which signifies a little 

 Bell, has been given to this numerous family of 

 plants, from the resemblance which the corollas bear 

 to that instrument ; and were we to describe all the 

 species, sub-species, varieties, and sub-varieties of 

 the Campanula, we should have to ring nearly as 

 many changes as are performed on the celebrated 

 bells of Saint Martin's tower. But as these 

 changes might not be so agreeable to our readers 

 as the sound of the merry bells were to the ears 

 of Nell Gwynn, we shall merely touch upon those 

 Campanulas that accord best with the harmony of 

 the garden, regretting at the same time that the 

 poets have not chimed either on the Coventry or the 

 Canterburry bells, so as to have enlivened our pas- 

 sages in the history of these flowers. Milton slightly 

 touches on the Bell-flower in his poem " On the 



