In Tuscany a similar legend is attached to the oleander, and elsewhere the white campanula has been known as the "little staff of St. Joseph," while a German name for the white double daffodill is "Joseph's staff.

The little pink is "lady's cushion," and the campanula is her looking-glass.

" Among further plants of ill omen may be mentioned the bluebell (Campanula rotundifolia), which in certain parts of Scotland was called "The aul' man's bell," and was regarded with a sort of dread, and commonly left unpulled.

The double flowers, so much admired by the florists, are termed by the botanist vegetable monsters; in some of these the petals are multiplied three or four times, but without excluding the stamens, hence they produce some seeds, as Campanula and Stramoneum; but in others the petals become so numerous as totally to exclude the stamens, or males; as Caltha, Peonia, and Alcea; these produce no seeds, and are termed eunuchs.

Along this solitary ridge, Where smiles, but rare, the blue Campanula, Among the thistles, and grey stones, that peep Through the thin herbageto the highest point Of elevation, o'er the vale below, Slow let us climb.

Their feet were bedded deep in sweet fern and wild raspberries, and golden-rod, and purple scabious, and tall blue campanulas.

In other cases the merit is divided: Anemone may dispute the prize of melody with Windflower, Campanula with Harebell, Neottia with Ladies'-Tresses, Uvularia with Bellwort and Strawbell, Potentilla with Cinquefoil, and Sanguinaria with Bloodroot.

Campanula and the blue geranium or meadow crane's-bill, with flowers of perfect blue, grow everywhere amid the white blossoms of the spiraea.

Here the poppy showed its scarlet in the midst of the stalks of wheat still green, and along the borders were purple patches of that sun-loving campanula, Venus's looking-glass.

An exquisitely delicate campanula with minute flowers bloomed with hemp-agrimony and wood-sage along the sides of the rills that -scarcely murmured as they slid down the clefts of the impervious rock.

Cambridge, 1776: "Vesper adest, lugubre sonat Campanula; tardis.

Campanula Mayii is a grand plant for hanging baskets, and also grows well trained up sticks in a pyramidal form.

This is an attractive border biennial, bearing from March to June white campanula-like flowers tinged with purple, on erect stems.

Height, 1 ft. Venus's Car.See "Dielytra." Venus's Looking-Glass (Specularia Speculum).A pretty hardy annual, bearing a profusion of Campanula-like flowers in July.

A doubt hangs over the poetical history of the modern, as well as of the ancient flower, owing to the appellation Harebell being, indiscriminately applied both to Scilla wild Hyacinth, and also to Campanula rotundifolia, Blue Bell.

Campanula Rapunculus.

CAMPANULA rotundifolia.

P. campanula, n. sp. Fam.

P. campanula, n. sp. Cells campanulate, border entire; lateral and anterior appendages canalicular.

In P. catharina these organs are longer, more slender, infundibuliform, whilst in P. campanula they are shorter and thicker and the terminal cup is open on one side or canalicular.

The ovicells might perhaps afford a more striking characteristic, but they are unfortunately wanting in all the specimens of P. campanula.