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way amongst alpine plants, and abounds on moun- 

 tains in Scotland, Wales, and many parts of Eng- 

 land. There is a variety called G. d. roseum, to be 

 had in some nurseries, that has its dwarf flowers 

 delicately tinted with rose ; a most desirable thing. 

 Neat edgings are sometimes made of this plant ; 

 so that there should be no difficulty in procuring 

 it, even supposing we cannot find it wild ; but it is 

 a popular plant wherever Alpines are grown, and 

 therefore not difficult to obtain anywhere. Gna- 

 phalium margaritaceum is a common old plant in 

 gardens, its flowers having been often dried for 

 "everlastings," and altogether it makes a re- 

 spectable, though not first-rate, border-plant, 

 and should be in the "garden of British wild- 

 flowers." 



We will now turn to the extensive Harebell order, 

 where we shall find much beauty with little or no 

 raggedness — from the Harebell which swings its 

 bonny blue flower above the blast-beaten turf on 

 many an upland pasture, to the little prostrate Ivy 

 Campanula {C. hederacea), which is rather plentiful 

 in most spots in Ireland and Western England. 

 The giant Campanula (C. latifolia) is one of the 

 handsomest, and is pretty frequent. The spreading 

 Campanula (C. patula), of the central and southern 



