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ing blossoms. It grows mid ia the south of 

 Europe. The fau-shaped branches of the pyra- 

 midal campanula, (^Campanula pyramidalis,) 

 are thickly covered with their numerous blue 

 flowers, but more often grace the hall, or 

 Avindow-seat, than the garden bed. The Can- 

 terbury bell and great throatwort are very 

 generally cultivated ; the latter is a native of 

 Europe, as well as of Japan, and some parts of 

 Asia. It is wild in some parts of Britain ; the 

 Scottish poet speaks of it, as growing on the 

 heath of his native land : — 



"He laid him down 

 Where purple heath profusely strown, 

 And tliroatwort with its azure bell, 

 And moss, and thyme, his cushion swell." 



The French call this species, la cloche. The 

 lesser Canterbury bell, (^Campanula medium,) 

 is a native of Germany, but was by Gerarde 

 deemed a British flower. 



Very beautiful are the blossoms of the 

 passion flower, (Passijlora cccrulea,) which, Avith 

 its twining branches, and dark-green leaves, 

 now climbs over the front of the dwelling, or 

 the garden arbour. It is the only species 

 which is quite hardy. Its fruit ripens in 

 England, and is not unwholesome. It is a wild 

 flower of the American wood, climbing up to 

 the hiorhest boujjh of the tall forest tree, and 

 hanffincT its rich festoons from one branch to 

 another. It is called by a name similar to our 

 familiar one, in most of the countries of Europe. 

 The Spaniards, when they first saw its flower, 

 regarded it as a token that the Indian should 



