Higher up the course of the river, Orchis conopsea, long-spurred and very sweet, the compact Orchis pyramidalis, and the rare Epipactis palustris are to be found, as well as campanula Glomerata, and crow garlic, in an old chalk-pit nearly destroyed by the railway and the water works.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
This gray masonry was covered with bright blue campanula, dainty fronded ferns, light green in color; and the air, wonderfully pure and sweet in itself from the recent rain, was filled with delicate woodland odors."
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
campanula and the blue geranium or meadow crane's-bill, with flowers of perfect blue, grow everywhere amid the white blossoms of the spiraea.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs