56 FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. 



sufficiently indicated by its name. It is a very graceful 

 and beautiful little plant, rarely more than four inches long, 

 its stems creeping on the swampy ground j leaves in pairs, 

 small, but closely succeeding each other on the stem ; 

 flowers rising up on rather long pedicles ; the corolla 

 divided into live lobes, a beautiful rose-colour, bell-shaped, 

 but the widest part uppermost, not drooping, as in the 

 hare-bell and most other campanulate flowers. It blossoms 

 during July and August. Like most bog and aquatic 

 plants, its beauty soon fades when the plant is gathered- 

 It must be viewed in situ. 



