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observed towards the latter end of the month of August, they 

 are long-stalked, elongate, oval bodies, the largest of which are 

 about the size of a small coffee-bean. If cut through vertically, 

 the lower half is found to consist of compact cellular tissue, in 

 which the germ of rootlets is perceptible ; the upper, of rudiments 

 of leaves, alternating with large gibbous stipules (sackformigen 

 Nebenblattern) , which are membranous, and veined with red. 

 Of the rudimentary leaves, the outermost has a long stalk, and a 

 very small, kidney-shaped, not folded blade, with red spots ; in 

 the second the blade is much larger and the stalk shorter, and 

 in the third still more so. By the 1st of March I found these 

 little bulbs in a state of rapid development. Each had put forth 

 three or four perfect leaves, while the blade of the above-described 

 rudimentary ones remained unaltered in size and shape, though 

 its stalk had somewhat lengthened. The accompanying drawings, 

 made by me during these observations, will obviate the necessity 

 of any further explanation. 



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Hairbell v. Harebell. 



It appears that Sir W. Hooker, in his ' British Flora,' considei's that 

 the Campanula rotundifolia is the Harebell of Sir Walter Scott's ' Lady of 

 the Lake,' as he quotes the lines of that author in his description of this 

 tiower ; but it should be observed that Harebell is the common name given 

 by our early writers to the Ili/acintlms nonscr'qjtus . 



Gerard (book i. chap. 79) speaks of Jacinth or Harebells, including 

 HyacintJms anglicus. Elisha Coles, in his Dictionary, gives " Harebells, 

 Hyachdhns anglicus.'^ And tliis flower is mentioned by Shakspeare in 

 ' Cymbeline,' on Eidele, as follows : — 



" Thou shalt not lack 

 The flower that's like thy face, pale Primrose, nor 

 The azured Harebell, like thy veins." 



Coles also gives Hare's-ear, Bupleurum, and Hare's-Lettuce, Sonchvs 

 levis. We have also in our Elora, a Trifolium called Hare's-foot Trefoil. 

 I am therefore cunous to know the name of the first writer who calls the 

 Campanula, Harebell. In the ' Illustrated Handbook of British Plants,'' 

 the C rotund if oUa is called Nodding-flower Harebell ; but the Rev. Mr. 

 Johns, in his 'Flowers of the Field,' calls it Hairbell. The latter appears 

 to me most appropriate. H. Beisly. 



