THE HAEEBELL. 



Campanula rotitndifolia. JYirf. Ord., 

 Campanulacea. 



HE graceful little plant that 

 forms the subject of our present 

 illustration is abundantly met 

 with throughout Britain, on hilly 

 pasturage, such as the great ranges 

 of chalk downs in the south of 

 England, on heaths and sandy 

 banks, and springing by the dusty 

 roadsides. It may often be found, 

 too, growing in the interstices of old 

 walls, or springing from crevices in 

 the rocks. Wherever found it is always 

 an added charm, whether dancing in the 

 breeze on the sunny hillside, springing 

 up amidst the purple heath that mantles 

 the common, cheering the sight of the 

 wayfarer as he toils along the bare hard road, or giving 

 one more feature of interest and grace to the choice 

 collection of plants, the yellow stonecrop, the quaint ivy- 

 leaved snap-dragon, the delicate ferns, the grey and orange 

 lichens that spring from every nook and crevice of the old 

 stone wall, or the great rocky masses of the mountain- 

 side. The plant is a perennial, and flowers from the 

 beginning of July to the end of September. 



