NETTLE-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER. 



Campanula Traclielium. 



Class Pentandria. Order Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Campanu- 

 LACE^. — Bell-flower Tribe. 



Beautiful as the woods are in July with 

 their well-clad boughs waving in the breeze, 

 yet woodland flowers are fewer in number than 

 in the spring. Some large species of Bell- 

 flower are, however, conspicuous among the 

 bushes of the wood or hedge bank, and that 

 represented in the engraving is very common 

 there. It is a hairy plant, with an angular 

 stem, and large purple blossoms ; while the 

 leaf is sufficiently like that of a nettle to give 

 to the species its distinctive name. Though 

 so frequent in the green lanes and woods 

 of some parts of England, it is, in Scotland, 

 a rare flower, but has been found on the old 

 walls of Mugdoch Castle, near Glasgow, and 

 in a few other places. It has been described 

 by the poet :— : 



" And there with hispid leaf and blooms 

 Of darken'd sapphire, richly swinging. 

 The Bell-flower nettle-leaved illumiis 



With azure light the woods ; while bringing 

 Around it troops of insect things, 

 With merry song and dancing wings." 



