THE HAREBELL. 
Botanical Name, Campanula rotundifolia. — Class, 
Pentandria. —Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, blue, in¬ 
clining downwards .—Native place, Europe. 
Sentiment. 
GRIEF. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The flowers of this plant gracefully incline 
downwards; so that the imagination requires 
little excitement to interpret it into an 
emblem of grief, with “ head depressed 
and accordingly we find the poets have not 
failed to notice the resemblance,— 
“ The Harebell, as with grief depress’d, 
Bowing her fragrance.” 
The attitude, if we may so say, of the flower, 
