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where in Switzerland, alike on the Alps and on 

 the plains. From the closely tufted rosettes of 

 foliage rise the stems, each bearing three to 

 six flowers. It is the Campanula pusilla, and a 

 very near relative to our English harebell. It 

 is the C. gracilis of some of the older writers, 

 and no name could more accurately describe it. 

 The whole plant is ordinarily but about three 

 inches high. 1 



When we once stray away from our native flora 

 a wealth of campanulas is at our service. In a 

 gardener's list before us we find seventy-nine 

 species set forth. Those who care, therefore, to 

 do so can at once, by means of a small cheque 

 and a trowel set themselves up abundantly in the 

 item of bell-flowers. We ourselves name and illus- 

 trate but two more of these, as it is our hobby not 

 so much to write cheques as to accumulate those 

 plants that we have ourselves dug up or collected 

 the seeds of, in Britain or anywhere else, or that by 

 gift or kindly exchange come to us, bearing with 

 them pleasant memories of those friends from 

 whom they came. 



The Campanula pulla that figures on Plate XXX. 

 comes under the latter condition of our preceding 

 paragraph, carrying with it happy thoughts of the 



1 The specific name pusilla is bestowed on the plant from 

 its small size. In France it is for the same reason the petite 

 campanule or campanule naine. 



