148 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
cific name is given, and linear entire cauline ones, with 
drooping, solitary, fine blue flowers; those of the English 
plants being rather the largest. In flower, in July; a 
perennial one to one and a half foot high. It is known 
by the name of Hare-bell in England also, and Sir Walter 
Scott speaks of it by that title; 
“ What though no rule of courtly grace 
To measured mood had trained her pace? 
A foot more light, a step more true, 
Ne’er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; 
E’en the slight Hare-bell raised its head 
Elastic from her airy tread.”—Lady of the Lake. 
C. Loréi. — Lore’s Bell-flower.— A hardy annual, 
of considerable beauty, introduced in 1825, from Mount 
Baldo. It is of easy culture, very hardy, produc- 
ing seed very abundantly; it grows about nine inches 
high, flowering freely. Some of the blossoms are of a 
fine purple-blue color, and others of a pure white. Each 
flower is two inches and upwards across. When the 
plant is cultivated in masses, the flowers are very showy 
and ornamental, and continue in bloom along time. C. 
pentagonia, or five-angled, is another annual with blue or 
purple flowers, is also very pretty; from Turkey, one 
foot high. 
C. médium.— Canterbury Bells.— This species, with 
its varieties, is one of our oldest ornamental plants, 
it having for a long time been cultivated in our gardens; 
it is, nevertheless, a showy plant, and will doubtless al- 
ways be retained as a prominent ornament of the border, 
The varieties are rose, blue, and white, double and single. 
The double varieties, however, are much inferior to the 
single ones, and will be cultivated only for their oddity. 
Being biennial, it will be necessary to sow the seeds every 
year. The young plants must be transplanted to the 
place in which they are to flower, in August or Septem- 
ber, for if deferred until spring the bloom will be greatly 
