232 AUTUMN WILD FLOWERS. 



Marsh Cudweed (GnapTialium uliginosim) lifts, too, its 

 woolly-branched stalk and its yellowish-brown chaffy 

 head to the sun. 



The Marsh Gentian or Felwort (Swertia perennis) 

 is a somewhat rare plant now. Its trumpet-like blue 

 bells are open to the sun like a chalice, to catch the 

 dew, and are streaked with yellowish-green. They 

 grow above the narrow leaves on a stem nearly a foot 

 high. The tonic properties of this herb are much 

 used even now. 



Another elegant marsh plant is the minute Ivy- 

 leaved Bellflower (Campanula hederacea), but unfortu- 

 nately it is rarely to be met with save in alpine districts 

 in England, where it makes its home by the side of the 

 waterfall. I have met with it frequently in Ireland, 

 but its hair-like stems, ivy-shaped leaves, and purplish 

 bells, are not obtrusive to the eye. 



The fruit bushes that stud the marsh are equally 

 common to the moorland and mountain, and there we 

 have observed them. 



