114 WILD FLOWEKS. 



BELL-FLOWER, WITCH'S THIMBLE, 

 THROAT-WORT. 



Campanula. 



Welsh, Clychlys. Gaelic, Curach-na-cw'aig. French, Clo- 

 chette, Campanelle. German, Glocken-bluine. 



LINN^AN. NATURAL. 



Pentandria. Campanulacece. 



Monogynia. Campanula. 



" THE frail blue-bell peereth over, 

 Eare broidery of the purple clover," 



writes Tennyson, in lines which, for their beauty, 

 we cannot quarrel with, though truth has been 

 somewhat sacrificed to rhythm ; as the rich leas 

 in which the purple clover flowers could never be 

 decked with the mountain and heath -loving hare- 

 or blue-bell, which would quickly die in any herb- 

 age so long and succulent as the purple clover ; 

 though it might, perhaps, grow in the closer tufts 

 of the hill-side white clover.* However, we will 

 not deal too critically with a poet whose observa- 

 tion of nature is usually fresh and true, or who 

 tells us, so prettily: 



" When the little airs arise, 

 How the merry blue-bell rings 

 To the mosses underneath." 



* If I might venture to speak more scientifically on the 

 subject, I should quote the matter-of-fact words of the botanist, 



