204 The Romance of Wild Flowers 
pollen against it, where it remains entangled in the 
hairs. Then the anthers start back from the style 
and shrivel away, and disclose the style 
muffled up in its coat of pollen. Certain 
bees, like Cilissa hemorrhoidalis, confine 
their attention to the Harebell, and use the 
clapper-like style for alighting and clhmb- 
ing up to the honey-glands. Probably they 
would as often climb up the walls of the 
corolla, but this is beset with a number of 
Harebell : 
ist condition long hairs which poke the bee in the face 
and so annoy it. An advantage, too, in 
using the style is that it leads directly to the honey, 
and so the bee climbs up and gets its under-side well 
covered with pollen. Several other bees come before 
the honey is nearly exhausted, and between them 
carry off the bulk of the pollen. Then the style 
lengthens, the clubbed head splits into from three to 
five arms, which spread widely, so that they occupy a 
considerable portion of the mouth of the bell, and the 
side of the arms that is exposed outwardly is found 
to be stigmatic. Should a bee now come, after getting 
itself dusted with pollen in a younger 
flower, it will alight on the stigmas and 
fertilise them. 
The Harebell has adopted the hanging 
attitude for its flowers, doubtless to protect 
both honey and pollen, but all the native 
species of Campanula are not so careful 
in this respect. All the others, in fact, bear 
b a Harebell 
their flowers erectly, or inclined to the  4nq condition 
horizontal position, but the plan for fer- 
tilisation is the same in all. The commonest of the 
