AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 53 
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flowers of this genus in Linn. Cl. Pentandria ; 
the colours of the flowers of these species 
belong mainly to the five-parted calyx; the 
minute petals are of the same colour, and their 
withered relics are found upon the enlarged 
and ripened berry. 
We have now the usual profusion of the 
Blue-bell, or Wild Hyacinth, Exdymzon nutans, 
called also Scz/la nutans, and, still further back, 
Flyacinthus nonscriptus. Its English name 
must ever be the “ Blue-bell.” The Blue-bell 
of Scotland, an autumn flower, is a Campanula ; 
it is the.slender stemmed flower of which the 
poet writes, in the Lady of the Lake, 
*“« F’en the slight hair-bell raised its head 
Elastic from her airy tread.” 
The true Zave-bellis the Wild Hyacinth. Does 
not Shakspeare associate this latter flower with 
the Primrose in the passage in Cymbeline—’ 
‘Thou shalt not lack 
The flower that’s like thy face, pale Primrose, nor 
The azured Harebell, like thy veins!” 
The Blue-bell of spring is of Linn. Cl. Hexan- 
1 Mr. Grindon alludes to this in his British and Garden 
Botany. 
