Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . on dry and hillypastures and heaths, though by no means in such localities ex-clusively, as the roadside hedge-bank is another favourite are ten species indigenous to England, most of them ofgreat beauty and adaptability to art-requirements : of these wemay in particular mention the C. hcdcracca, the ivy-leaved cam-panula, a little plant by no means uncommon in moist shadypastures and swampy low-lying ground. The present species is THE ADAPTABILITY OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS. 49 abund
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . on dry and hillypastures and heaths, though by no means in such localities ex-clusively, as the roadside hedge-bank is another favourite are ten species indigenous to England, most of them ofgreat beauty and adaptability to art-requirements : of these wemay in particular mention the C. hcdcracca, the ivy-leaved cam-panula, a little plant by no means uncommon in moist shadypastures and swampy low-lying ground. The present species is THE ADAPTABILITY OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS. 49 abundant everywhere throughout Europe and Northern Canterbury bell (C. medium) is an allied and familiar gardenspecies. The generic name, Campanula, means a little bell, and from theshape of the corolla is aptly applied to these plants. Rotundtfolia,meaning round-leaved, seems at first sight a misnomer, as theleaves most easily visible on a cursory glance at the plant arethin and strap-shaped. The lower leaves of the plant, however,are rounded in form ; and, as we study the foliage, we shall see. Harebell. a delicate ascending gradation of form, from the rounded leavesat the lower end of the stem, to the thin, almost grass-like leavesof the upper part. Drawings of the harebell will be found inT. N. O. 80; P. F. 12. The Hazel-nut [Corylus avellana) is so familiar a shrub thatany lengthened description of it must be needless, or, to quoteour old writer, Gerarde: Our hedge-nut, or hazel-nut tree,which is very well knowne, and therefore needeth not anydescription, whereof there are also sundry sorts, some great,some little, as also one that is in our gardens, which is very H 50 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. great, bigger than any filberd, and yet a kinde of hedge-nut;this then that hath beene said shall suffice for smaller twigs of the hazel afford an excellent charcoal forartistic purposes, and the long straight shoots, thrown up withsuch rapidity and vigour, are lar
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