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Pes!) Ze Nx" N heaths and pastures where 
the turf is kept close-cropped, 
from one end of our country to the 
other, we may find all summer 
through one of the most charming 
of our wild flowers, and one of which 
poets and prose-romancers of all ages have made good 
use. This is well known in the South as Harebell, or 
Hairbell, and in the North as Bluebell (Campanula 
rotundifolia) ; or, as a compromise between North and 
South, it may be called the Round-leaved Bell-flower. 
This last is a book-name,a mere translation of the scien- 
tific names. As a matter of fact, it never has really 
round leaves, but in young specimens the root-leaves are 
roundish, mostly heart-shaped, and there is a gradual 
transition from these to the upper stem-leaves, which 
are exceedingly narrow—the nearest approach to a 
line, and hence termed linear leaves. From the 
arched summit of the stem hangs the flower in an 
inverted position—the proper position for a_ bell, 
which the flower closely resembles in form, except 
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