CHEEPING BELL- 

 FLO WEE, 



Campanula rapunculoides. Nat. Ord., 

 Campanulacea. 



HOUGH the creeping bell- 

 flower is not often met with 

 in a wild state, and some may 

 therefore hardly hold it to be 

 a legitimate addition to our 

 present series, we claim the 

 indulgence of such readers, 

 and base our claim on the fact 

 that the creeping bell-flower, 

 though rarely seen in the 

 hedgerow, is not uncommonly 

 to be met with in the gardens 

 of cottagers, and those who 

 see and admire it there will 

 be interested to know that it claims 

 relationship with its fellow bell- 

 flowers of the meadow and the heath. 

 We have ourselves in Surrey found it growing amongst 

 the dense vegetation of the old-fashioned hedgerows the 

 old wasteful type that we sometimes meet with a confused 

 mass of maple, bramble, hawthorn, black bryony, guelder- 

 rose, and twenty other things, in some places two feet high 

 and in others ten, and in thickness almost equally variable. 



