182 CAMPANULACEJE. 



" Light Harebell, there thou art, 



Making a lovely part 

 Of all the splendour of the days gone by, 

 Waving, if but a breeze 

 Pant through the distant trees, 

 That on the hill-top grow broad-branched and high. 



' Oh ! when I look at thee, 



In thy fair symmetry, 

 And look on other flowers as fair beside, 



My sense is gratitude, 



That God has been thus good, 

 To scatter flowers like common blessings wide." 



Smaller than this, and far more fragile, is the little Ivy- 

 leaved Bell-Flower (C. hedersefolia), which Fanny found grow- 

 ing along with the Pale Birtterwort, in the swampy ground near 

 the Loe Pool. The little bells are very pale, and the stem has 

 none of the wiry texture of the Harebell ; on the contrary, it 

 is soft and tender, and can only rise to the height of a few 

 inches by supporting itself on the stems of other plants. We 

 have a garden species, a size between this and the Harebell, of 

 a pure white. It is a native of France, and is called there 

 " La Religieuse des Champs." 



The Creeping Bell-Flower (C. rapunculoides), is a handsome 

 plant, with a one-sided spike of bright purple drooping flowers 

 and roughish leaves ; those on the stem being lance-shaped, 

 those on the root heart-shaped. It is rare as a wild plant ; 

 my specimen is from a garden. 



The Clustered Bell-Flower (C. glomerata, Plate XIL,jig. 1), 

 grows abundantly in fields adjoining Studley Park, near Eipon. 

 The deep purple bells are situated in a sessile cluster at the 

 top of the stem, and one or two more flowers .spring from the 

 axils of the next pair of leaves. In these meadows it grows 

 a foot and a half high ; but I have gathered the plant upon 

 the Wiltshire downs, and in Switzerland, where the height was 

 only two inches. 



The Giant Bell-Flower (C. latifolia), is the glory of our 

 northern woods. Eising to the hight of four or five feet, with 

 a spike of flowers more than half the length of the whole plant, 



