BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 



hillsides, from ocean to ocean, and from Canada to 

 Utah, Mexico and the Gulf States. 



HAIRBELL. HAREBELL. LADY'S THIMBLE. 

 BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND 



Campanula rotundifolia. Bellflower Family. 



There is always an airy, cheery loveliness about this 

 bonny blue Highland lassie, that wins our constant 

 affection and admiration. Blue Bells of Scotland! 

 How it tingles the blood to come upon them and to 

 recall that they were the same dear flower. The name 

 fairly rings in our ears as we ponder over their dainty 

 drooping blossoms, which seem to nod in cadence with 

 the murmur or babble of the mountain brook whose 

 moist, rocky banks they love to decorate from June 

 to September. This rather frail, delicate perennial, 

 grows usually from six to twenty inches, or sometimes 

 fully three feet high, from a slender rootstock. The 

 smooth, single, or branching stem is very slender, 

 and frequently several of them spring from the same 

 root. The small, basal leaves are usually round heart- 

 shaped, and mostly toothed, with long, slender stems. 

 They often wither before the flowers are ready to open. 

 The numerous, long upper leaves, which are seated on 

 the stem, are very narrow, smooth and pointed. Sev- 

 eral pretty, five-lobed, bell-shaped, hair-stemmed 

 flowers hang downward from a terminal arrangement 

 and dangle coyishly on the swaying, wind-tossed stalk. 

 Their colour varies from purplish to violet blue. Five 

 slender stamens alternate with the spreading lobes of 



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