CHAPTER XVI. 
BELL-FLOWERS AND DAISIES 
THIS, our second division of plants which have corollas in 
one piece, is distinguished by the fact that the seed-vessels 
are always below the point at which calyx and corolla join 
the flowering stalk. This is not a difference of principle, 
you will notice, but of a prominent detail, such as we 
must choose if we would establish any order in our 
imaginary school. The form is too big, and we must 
halve it in some way, even though all the members of 
it are on a level in their general work. 
We shall not therefore be surprised to find, when now 
we have to pass from the Heaths to the Hairbells, that 
the resemblances are more striking than the differences. 
Very likely one may come across them side by side, the 
waxen pink of the Heath cluster set off by the nodding 
sky-blue bell that hangs in a graceful curve from the 
stalk, the slenderness of which gives the plant its name. 
The Hairbell has a long pistil which hangs down like 
a tongue in the bell, and makes an admirable resting- 
place for a bee. The stamens are lower in the bell, and 
close-pressed against the style, or pillar of the pistil, 
which is split for some distance down from the top. 
The two arms thus formed do not expand at first, but 
wait for the stamens to complete their work of shedding 
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