BLUE AND PURPLE WILD FLOWERS 
hillsides, from ocean to ocean, and from Canada to 
Utah, Mexico and the Gulf States. 
HAIRBELL. HAREBELL. LADY’S THIMBLE. 
BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND 
Campénula rotundifolia. Bellflower Family. 
There is always an airy, cheery loveliness about this 
bonny blue Highland lassie, that wins our constant 
affection and admiration. Blue Bells of Scotland} 
How it tingles the blood to come upon them and to 
recall that they were the same dear flower. The name 
fairly rings in our ears as we ponder over their dainty 
drooping blossoms, which seem to nod in cadence with 
the murmur or babble of the mountain brook whose 
moist, rocky banks they love to decorate from June 
to September. This rather frail, delicate perennial, 
grows usually from six to twenty inches, or sometimes 
fully three feet high, from a slender rootstock. The 
smooth, single, or branching stem is very slender, 
and frequently several of them spring from the same 
root. The small, basal leaves are usually round heart- 
shaped, and mostly toothed, with long, slender stems. 
They often wither before the flowers are ready to open. 
The numerous, long upper leaves, which are seated on 
the stem, are very narrow, smooth and pointed. Sev- 
eral pretty, five-lobed, bell-shaped, hair-stemmed 
flowers hang downward from a terminal arrangement 
and dangle coyishly on the swaying, wind-tossed stalk. 
Their colour varies from purplish to violet blue. Five 
slender stamens alternate with the spreading lobes of 
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