CAMPAX'ULA ALA'RIS. 
THE . RINGING BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
rENTANDRI.I. MONOGYNTA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANL'LACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Europe ? 
18 inches. 
-August. 
Perennial. 
in 1841 ? 
No. 963. 
The name, Campanula, from the Latin campana, 
a bell, is very coiTectly applied to this extensive 
genus of plants ; yet less so to the species now pub- 
lished than to any which has come under our 
notice. Still it requires no extravagant stretch of 
imagination to look on these flowers — these little 
bells — not as the Christmas Chimes of a Dickens, 
but, in the spirit of the poets, as the peal of the 
fairies, to enliven their midsummer night gambols. 
“ When glow-worm lamps illume the scene, 
And silvery daisies dot the green. 
Thy flowers revealing; 
Perchance to soothe the fairy queen. 
With faint sweet tones on night serene. 
Thy soft bells pealing.” 
This is the Campanula alaris of the Hortus 
Beroliensis, a veiy distinct species, a showy plant, 
and quite hardy. Like some others of this genus, 
it is probably, a short-lived plant ; but this is the 
less important, inasmuch as it produces abundance 
of seeds, from which it may be propagated by sow- 
ing these in March or April. A diy situation 
should be preferred. 
