THE HARE-BELL TRIBE. 171 



the Alps of India are others of the deepest purple 

 that can be conceived : on the rocks of Madeira lives 

 one which was foraierly not uncommon in our gar- 

 dens (Musschia aurea), whose corollas are of a rich 

 golden yellow ; and finally, in the pastures of the Cape 

 of Good Hope are Roellas, the flowers of which are 

 elegantly banded with streaks of violet or rose passing 

 into white. 



Let us, however, confine ourselves, in the first in- 

 stance, to the true Hare-bell genus. In every shady 

 lane there grows a diminutive herb, with little grassy 

 leaves, and a few blue bell-shaped nodding flowers ; 

 this is the real Hare-bell,whicb. Botanists call the round- 

 leaved Campanula ; you will wonder why it is so called, 

 since its leaves are narrow, like those of a grass ; but 

 if you pull it up by its roots, you will then find that 

 the lowest of all the leaves have a roundish outline, 

 from which circumstance it derives its name. You 

 who live in the country will take this species for ex- 

 amination ; but I am obliged to step into a garden 

 for a subject, and I have selected a species found in 

 thickets in the Ukraine, from which it is named 

 Campanula ucranica ; either will answer the purpose 

 equally well. 



The calyx of the plant has five deep divisions 

 (Plate XIV. 1.), which spread regularly away from 

 the base of the corolla, and from the top of the ovary. 

 The corolla has very regularly the figure of a bell, 

 except that it is too narrow at the base ; its borders is 

 divided into five lobes, which shew that it is made 

 up of five petals, and it is veined in a pretty and 



