CANADIAN HAREBELL. 
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Although, in colour and shape of the blossom, the Canadian 
flower resembles the British one, it is more robust in its growth, 
less fragile—the flower stems being stouter, and the foot-stalk or 
pedicel stiffer and less pendulous, and yet sufficiently graceful. The 
root leaves, which are not very conspicuous during its flowering 
season, are round, heart-shaped. Those of the flower-stem are 
numerous, narrow and pointed. This pretty flower is variable in 
colour and foliage. Its general flowering season is July and August. 
The corolla is bell-shaped or campanulate; 5 cleft; calyx 
lobes, awl shaped, persistent on the seed vessel; stamens 5, style 1, 
stigmas 2; seed vessel several celled and many seeded: in height 
the plant varies from a few inches to a foot; number of flowers 
varying from a few to many. 
We have but three known species in Canada, Campanula 
Americana, “ a large handsome species being found in Western 
Canada and O. aparirioides. The rough-leaved Bellflower is found 
in thickets where the soil is poor but the atmosphere moist; it is of 
a climbing or rather clinging habit; the weak slender stem, many 
branched, laying hold of the grasses and low shrubs that surround it 
for support, which its rough teeth enable it to do very effectually; 
in habit it resembles the smaller Galium, or Lady’s bed-straw. The 
delicate bell-shaped flowers are marked with fine purple lines within, 
at the base of the white corolla. The leaves of this species are 
narrow-linear, rough, with minutely-toothed hairs ; the flowers are 
few, and fade very quickly. The name campanula is from campana, 
a bell. 
* Professor Hincks. 
