10 THE STORY OF, PLANT DERE 
This contrivance is admirably adapted to the needs 
of pollination, allowing insects to enter the mouth to 
get at the honey, and effectively sheltering it from 
the rain. 
There need be no fear of mistaking this bell-flower 
for the common harebell; the leaves are so different, 
apart from other distinctions. In this plant they are 
like those of the nettle, and are doubly serrate, 
whereas in the large common bellflower, C. latifolia, 
they are simply serrate, and all the leaves have 
stalks in this form whilst only the lower are petiolate 
in the latter. 
The plant grows in woods and copses, loving the 
shade, under hawthorns, etc., usually on a dry sandy 
or gravelly soil. 
The stem is tall and erect, usually 1 to 3 ft. 
in height, and is hispid with the hairs reversed 
and angled. The leaves are all petiolate ovate- 
lanceolate, doubly serrate, the base broad, the serra- 
tions coarse and irregular. 
The root leaves are cordate and borne on long 
stalks, the stem leaves have a broad base and are 
narrowed at the tip, acute. The bracts are leafy. 
The flowers are large, bell-shaped, drooping, or 
erect, bluish-purple. 
There may be one or two or three in a cluster, and 
they are borne in racemes and panicles. The 
peduncles are short. The bracteoles are lanceolate. 
The calyx is hispid, short and broad, with ovate, 
lanceolate segments. The corolla is a broad bell, 
