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CHAPTER XII. 



CAMPANULACE^ LOBELIACE^E VACCINACE^ ERIC- 

 ACE^E MONOTROPiCE^ AQUIFOLllCE^E OLE- 

 ACE^E APOCYNACE M GENTIANlCE^] POLEMONI- 

 ACEM CONVOLVULl 



" Your voiceless lips, flowers ! are living preachers, 



Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, 

 Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers 

 From loveliest nook. 



" 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that ringeth, 



And tolls its perfume on the passing air, 

 Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth 

 A call to prayer. 



" Were I, O God! in churchless lands remaining, 



Far from all voice of teachers and divines, 

 My soul would find, in flowers of thy ordaining, 

 Priests, sermons, shrines ! " 



HORACE SMITH. 



SOME of the orders now coming before us contain a number of 

 the most beautiful and attractive of our native plants. 



The BELL-FLOWER order has five stamens, the campanulate 

 corolla being cut into five segments. The calyx is five-lobed, 

 and remains fastened to the ovary while the seed ripens. The 

 seeds are numerous. 



This Spreading Bell-Flower (Campanula patula), is one of the 

 more rare members of the family. It grows in a straggling 

 manner, reaching a height of two feet. Its stem is branched 

 and angular, and the bell is so open as to verge on the wheel- 

 shape. This specimen grew on a hedgebank between Sutton 

 and Warminster, in Wiltshire. The whole plant is rough. 



The Eampion Bell-Flower (C. rapiinculus), is an elegant plant, 

 with a tapering, compact panicle, and smaller purple flowers. 



