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BELL FLOWER. CAMPANULA. 

 BLUE BELL. HARE BELL. Campanula rotundifolia. 



Plate 3, fly. 7. 

 Root leaves round. Stem leaves linear. Fl. stalked, drooping. 



Who does not love " The Pretty Blue Bell ?" with its little 

 delicate pendant flowers, its graceful stems, its narrow leaves. 

 We may not, perhaps, have observed that those leaves which 

 grow near to the root are round, because they soon dry up ; 

 but we all know how celebrated is " The Blue Bell of Scotland." 

 It is our present plant, and grows on all heaths and thickets. 



" The Hare-bell, bright and blue, 



That decks the /dingle wild, 

 In whose cerulean hue, 

 Heaven's own blest tint we view 



On day serene and mild. 

 How beauteous, like an azure gem, 

 She droopeth from her graceful stem." A. Strickland. 



" Are we not beautiful? Are not we 



The darlings of mountain, and woodland and lea? 



Plunge in the forest are we not fair ? 



Go to the high road we'll meet you there. 



Oh ! where is the flower that content may tell, 



Like the laughing, the nodding, and dancing Hare-bell." 



Romance of Nature. 



CLUSTERED BELL FLOWER. Campanula glomerata. 



Plate 3, /y. 8. 

 Leaves rough, lanceolate, crenate. Flowers sessile, in a cluster. 



Found in corn fields and meadows, though not so common 

 as the last. The flowers, which are of a fine dark blue, are 

 borne upright in a thick cluster, on the top of a simple stem, 

 with sometimes three or four flowers in the axils of the leaves 

 down the stem. The leaves are hairy, crenate, rather lanceolate ; 

 the upper ones sessile, the lower stalked. It grows from a 

 few inches to a foot in height, and flowers in June. 



O. S Spreading Bell Flower, Rampion Bell Flower, Peach-leaved 

 Bell Flower, Giant Bell Flower, and Creeping Bell Flower, all very rare ; 

 Nettle-leaved Bell Flower, common in gardens ; Ivy-leaved Bell Flower, 

 one of the most graceful little plants, which from its delicacy and place 

 of growth is often called " The Fairy of the Fountain ;" Corn Bell Flower, 

 which seems like a small flowered variety of the Venus Looking Glass, 

 a common border annual. 



