HAREBELL 
Campanula rotundifolia Linnaeus 
No one who has seen harebells remains unappteciative of theit 
dainty beauty. The apparently delicate stems are really strong and well 
able to support the flowets they catty. The buds are usually upright, 
but the flowers when open are horizontal or turn downwards to 
protect the stamens and pistils from passing showers. The name rotun- 
difolia (“tound-leaf”) describes the basal leaves of the plant, which 
usually disappear before the flowets have developed. 
The harebell has as wide a distribution as any member of the Bell- 
flower Family, ranging from Pennsylvania to Illinois, New Mexico, 
and California, and north to Labrador and Alaska. It grows also in 
Europe and Asia. It is the Scotch bluebell ot “bluebells of Scotland” 
that is celebrated in verse. 
The sketch was made ftom specimens found near Hector, British 
Columbia, at an altitude of 4,000 feet. 
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