70 POETICAL LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
origin of its emblem, as there is but little of Humility 
about their haughty race, whatever there may be in 
their name. 
Blue-belled flowers, known by a hundred various 
names in different parts of England, and all belonging 
to the genus Campanula , are as familiar as the Daisy 
to every one who has rambled about the country—from 
the campion (the giant) to the creeping, and every 
variety of bell-shaped flower that belongs to the order. 
But of all the Blue-bells, my favorite is the little wild 
Hare-bell, which still gets as near into London as it 
can for the smoke, and may be found no farther off than 
Dulwich and Norwood, nodding its beautiful blue head, j 
when nearly all the flowers of summer have faded, -j 
There, together with the heather, it still blows, in spite 
of railways and land-surveyors, and will do until the 
foundations for new houses have uprooted it from its 
native spot; until human habitations are reared, and 
household hearths blaze above the place where it has 
for ages grown. That botanist displayed some taste 
who first selected these bell-shaped flowers as the em¬ 
blem of Constancy, for “true blue” is one of the few 
colors about which Britons boast; they are truly 
English flowers. 
