HAREBELL. — Campanula rofimdifolia. 



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 Bell-Flower Tkibe. 



There are few of our wild flo^vers more 

 admired, or which have won more praises from 

 the poets, than the Harebell. Bowing down 

 to every wind which sweeps across the open 

 and bleak })laces which are its native hannts, 

 and having its azure cup sprinkled with the 

 morning dews, as with pearls, it surpasses most 

 flowers in gracefulness of form, and many in 

 beauty of colour. It is, too, as common as it 

 is lovely, for every heath and sunny bank and 

 hilly pasture has its little knots of harebells, 

 and it often waves on the very summit of some 

 tall cliff or old wall, being ever most plentiful 



" On the swelling downs, where sweet air stirs 

 The blue-bells lightly, and where prickly furze 

 Buds lavish gold." 



The leaves on its stem are slender, hke those 

 of grass, but at its base there are a number of 

 roundish notched leaves, which serve to dis- 



Ko. 4. 



