BELL-FLOWER TRIBE, 



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CAMPANULA HEDERAcEA (Ivy-leaved Bell-flower). 



4. C. kederdcea (Ivy -leaved Bell-flower). Stem 

 < straggling, thread-like \ leaves stalked, roundish, heart- 

 shaped, angular, and toothed ; flowers solitary, on long 

 stalks. Wet heaths, and by the side of streams in 

 the south and west ; very abundant in Cornwall. An 

 exquisite little plant, generally growing with Anagallis 

 tenella, and (in Cornwall) with Sibihorpia Europcea, 

 plants certainly of a different habit, but scarcely less 

 elegant than itself. The leaves are of a remarkably 

 fine texture, and delicate green hue ; the flowers of a 

 pale blue, sometimes slightly drooping, and supported 

 on long stalks scarcely thicker than a hair. Its usual 

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