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it lias a most stately appearance. In Yorkshire the flowers 

 are generally pale lilac, or white, but they vary to purple in 

 other districts. Further south than York the plant is rare. 



The Nettle-leaved Bell-Flower (C. trachelium), is also a 

 handsome species, with rough, sharply- serrated leaves, and 

 abundant large purple flowers on its branched stem. The 

 leaves are lance-shaped, inclining more or less to heart-shape at 

 the base. This plant is rare in the north, but abundant in the 

 midland and southern counties. I have found it in profusion 

 both in Warwickshire and Shropshire. It grows' also in con- 

 siderable quantities about Canterbury, and has hence got the 

 name of " Canterbury-bell," though the species really entitled 

 to that name is a garden flower. Clare speaks of a boyish 

 trick played with the flowers of this plant and the glow-worm, 

 by putting the insect within one of the bells, which it illumined, 

 and so forming a mimic lantern. Howitt states that the same 

 experiment used to be made with the Eose. 



" When glow- "worm, found in lanes remote, 

 Is murdered for his shining coat, 

 And put in flowers that Nature weaves 

 "With hollow shape and silken leaves, 

 Such as the Canterbury -bell 

 Serving for lamp or lantern well." 



The Eound-headed Eampion (Phyteuma orbicularis), is in my 

 hands. It in no way resembles the old-fashioned Eampion, nor 

 do I hear that it was ever put to any useful purpose. This is a 

 rare plant, frequenting chalky downs. The flowers are arranged 

 in a head almost like Clover, and the colour is dark blue or 

 purple. My specimen is from Mr. Ward's garden. 



There is a species with elongated clusters of greenish flowers, 

 called the Spiked Eampion (P. spicatum). Sir J. E. Smith 

 gives Mayfield and Waldron, Essex, as its habitat. I have not 

 met with a specimen. 



The flowers of the Sheep's Scabious (Jasione montana), the 

 third family of the Bell-Flower tribe, are of a sky blue. From 

 the florets being arranged in heads, this plant resembles a 



