272 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
drooping, and a few together. This elegant flower is often 
spoken of by our poets. 
CaMPANULA PaTULA. Spreading Bellflower. Not nearly 
so common as the last, and the flower much more elegant. 
It seems to be confined to the middle and southern counties, 
and. even then is not very common; but in the deep lanes in 
Sussex it is occasionally met with. It is taller than the 
last, has longer leaves, which are also rough, and the corolla 
is not so blue, but purple, much more open, and less bell- 
shaped. In drying it loses all its beauty, and the flower 
turns white.* 
Campanuta TracueLium. Nettle-leaved Belt-flower. 
Frequent in woods, chiefly in the south. Leaves much like 
those of the Nettle, cut at the edges. Stem angular. Flowers 
large, deep blue, truly bell-shaped, and in small bunches. 
CAMPANULA GLOMERATA. Clustered Bell-flower. In dry 
chalky and clayey pastures, varying much in height, from 
three inches to a foot. Leaves rough, oblong, root-leaves 
stalked, those of the stem clasping. Flowers rather large, 
purple, in a cluster at the top. 
CaMPANULA HEDERACEA. ILvy-leaved Bellflower. A 
* Tf steeped in alum water before being dried, it will preserve the colour 
better: this method, indeed, succeeds in most flowers. 
