CREEPING BELL-FLOWER. 23 



Hogg poetic or Victor Verdier suggestive of beauty should 

 surely derive some satisfaction from the sonorous roll of 

 Campanula rapunculoides. 



The creeping bell-flower calls for but little description, 

 as our illustration will convey a very fair idea of its general 

 appearance. One point that will at once strike every one is 

 the depth to which the segments of the bell are cut in, as 

 compared with the harebell (C. rotundifolia) , or most of our 

 other species. The stem is either simple or very slightly 

 branched, and rises to a height of some two feet. It 

 derives its familiar name of creeping campanula from the 

 character of the root. The lower leaves of the plant are 

 somewhat heart-shaped, but more elongated than such 

 typical heart-shaped leaves as those of the violet, and they 

 are placed on long stalks, while the upper leaves are 

 stalkless, and what is termed lanceolate in form i.e., like 

 a lance-head. All are toothed on the edges, the lower 

 ones coarsely, the upper more finely. The flowers point 

 downwards and grow singly along the stalk, a small leaf 

 being given off at each springing point. All the flowers 

 spring from the same side of the stalk, and make a bevy of 

 blossoms all pointing in one direction, the gradual tapering 

 from the fully expanded flowers to the small terminal buds 

 being a beautiful and noticeable feature in the inflorescence. 

 The calyx segments are conspicuous and deeply cut, and 

 as the flower expands are turned back. In the interior 

 of the flower the stigma, with its three recurving lobes, 

 is very conspicuous, and below this the five anthers en- 

 circling the style may be seen. Each anther is supported 

 on a very short and slight-looking filament. The capsules 

 that succeed the blossoms are roundish, almost globular, 

 and surmounted by the five calyx segments. The seeds 



