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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAREBELL (sometimes wrongly written HAIItBELL) , known also as the See also:blue-See also:bell of See also:Scotland, and witches' thimbles, a well-known perennial See also:wild See also:flower, See also:Campanula rotundifolia, a member of the natural See also:order Campanulaceae. The harebell has a very slender slightly creeping See also:root-stock, and a wiry, erect See also:stem. The See also:radical leaves, that is, those at the See also:base of the stem, to which the specific name rotundifolia refers, have See also:long stalks, and are roundish or See also:heart-shaped with crenate or serrate margin; the See also:lower stem leaves are ovate or lanceolate, and the upper ones linear, subsessile, acute and entire, rarely pubescent. The See also:flowers are slightly drooping, arranged in a panicle, or in small specimens single, having a smooth calyx, with narrow pointed erect segments, the corolla bell-shaped, with slightly recurved segments, and the See also:capsule nodding, and opening by pores at the base. There are two varieties :—(a) genuina, with slender stem leaves, and (b) See also:montana, in which the lower stem-leaves are broader and somewhat elliptical in shape. The plant is found on heaths and pastures throughout See also:Great See also:Britain and flowers in See also:late summer and in autumn; it is widely spread in the See also:north temperate See also:zone. The harebell has ever been a great favourite with poets, and on See also:account of its delicate blue See also:colour has been considered as an See also:emblem of purity.

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