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and who can have gathered the beauteous Hare-bell gracefully 

 bending on its slender stem, ringing its chimes to the song of the 

 zephyrs, and saluting them as they pass over the dreary moors, or 

 perhaps along the shady glen or bounding on the green clad mead, 

 without having the place of its abode impressed upon the memory. It is 

 so delicate in the colour of its flowers, so elegant in its form, so slender 

 and graceful in its structure, as to be the favourite theme of many a 

 worthy poet's song. In the garden it is frequently cultivated, and 

 some beautiful delicate varieties obtained, the corolla often becoming 

 pure white. 



2. C. pa tula, Linn (Fig. 368.) spreading Bell- flower . Stem angu- 

 lar, rough ; leaves crenated, rougbish, those of the root oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly petiolated ; those of the stem linear, lanceolate, 

 sessile ; flowers erect, paniculated ; segments of the calyx subulate, 

 toothed. 



English Botany, t. 42. English Flora, vol. i. p. 289. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol i. p. 116. Lindley, Synopsis, p.' 136. 



Root white, long, tapering. Stem erect, two feet high, or more, 

 simple, or branched, angular and rough, with rigid deflexed hairs, 

 leafy. Leaves alternate, crenated, and hairy, the lower and root leaves 

 oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, soon withering, on a short decurrent 

 footstalk, the leaves on the lower part of the stem lanceolate, nearly 

 sessile, while those above are long, linear, lanceolate, sessile, and the 

 margins more serrated or toothed than crenated, and mostly less hairy 

 than the others, and more distant. Inflorescence a terminal, branched, 

 erect panicle, of numerous erect flowers, alternate, on a smoothish 

 nearly naked common stalk, each flower on a short slender erect foot- 

 stalk from the axis of a narrow subulate bractea. Calyx of five long 

 awl-shaped erect segments, broadish at the base, with one or two teeth 

 on each side, smooth and shining. Corolla larger than the last, erect, 

 wider, and more broadly spreading at the mouth, with deeper more 

 angular spreading segments, of a fine purplish blue, veiny, the tube 

 very short. Stamens about half as long as the corolla, the filaments 

 broadly dilated at the base and hairy, closing over the mouth of the 

 tube, the upper part broad, smooth, bearing a long linear two celled 

 anther, of a yellow colour. Style about the length of the corolla, with 

 a long hairy three-cleft stigma. Capsule oblong, with five prominent 

 angles, and five smaller alternate ones, somewhat downy between the 

 angles, of three cells, opening near the top on the sides with a small 

 oval opening. Seeds small, oval, numerous. 



Habitat. Pastures and hedges ; rare. Confined to the middle and 

 south-eastern counties of England, as Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, 

 Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Norfolk, Surrey, and Kent. 



Biennial ; flowering in July and August. 



