The Dwarf Hair-Bell or 

 Bell-Flower 



{CAMPANULA PUSILLA) 



The photograph gives a good general idea of the tufted 

 growth of the Dwarf Bell-flower. The plant is quite small, 

 rarely more than 3 or 4 inches high, and forms dense close- 

 growing tufts of some size. The smooth or hairy flower-stalks 

 bear one to six pale blue flowers and the narrow leaves, which 

 are most numerous and have serrated edges below. There 

 are also short flowerless branches covered with similar 

 leaves, and a few broader leaves with longer stalks grow 

 directly from the root stock. These last are not well seen 

 in the photograph. The plant is very abundant in dry 

 rocky and sandy places, in dried up torrent-beds, by the 

 roadside and on the tops of walls. It is found from the 

 lower mountain region up to some 8000 feet, and descends 

 with some of the rivers towards the plains. It is also found 

 in the Jura and parts of the Black Forest. 



The Dwarf Bell-flower will be recognised from most of 

 the other species of Campanula which abound in Switzerland 

 by its broad basal leaves, its narrow stem leaves, and its 

 erect seed pod. But, unfortunately, there are three other 

 Swiss species to which this description equally well applies. 

 Of these the rare Campanula excisa is at once picked out 



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