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blue bell, ˈblue-bell
[see bell n.1 4.]
The popular name of two widely different flowers.
1. A species of Campanula (C. rotundifolia) which grows on open downs, hills, and dry places, and flowers in summer and autumn, with a loose panicle of delicate blue bell-shaped flowers on slender peduncles. This is the ‘blue bell of Scotland’, and of the north of England, and of the Elizabethan herbalists. (Usually bluːˈbɛl or as two words.)
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxiii. 174 Blew Belles [with a figure of Campanula] whan their plante beginneth first to spring up..haue small rounde leaues. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, Blue bells, or bell flowers, Campanula flore cæruleo. 1795Burns Their Groves o' sweet Myrtle ii, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) VII. 178 He had scrambled to gather blue bells and heath flowers. a1872W. Miller The Blue Bell in Poets & Poetry of Scotl. 1877 II. 340 For glaumorie is round the sweet blue bell.
2. In the south of Eng. generally and in many modern Eng. poets: |ˈbluːbɛl| a bulbous-rooted plant, Scilla nutans (Hyacinthus non-scriptus Linn.), growing in moist woods and among grass, and flowering in spring, with a nodding raceme of drooping narrow bell-like flowers.
(Those who call this ‘blue-bell’ or ‘bluebell’, generally call the other ‘hair-bell’ or ‘hare-bell’.)
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xviii. 250 The Wild Hyacinth or Blue-Bells of the European woods. 1802Southey Thalaba iv. xxiii, Amid the growing grass The blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup shines, And the sweet cowslip scents the genial air. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. iv. vii. 121 Forest bluebells in a row Stoop to the first May wind. 1851M. Howitt Sk. Nat. Hist. 83 The nodding Blue⁓bell's graceful flowers, The Hyacinth of this land of ours. |