Venus' Looking-glass

Venus' Looking-glass (Specularia speculum), a very pretty little annual, of the natural order Campanulaceæ, which has long been a favourite in flower-gardens, and is a native of corn-fields in the south of Europe. It has brilliant blue, white, or violet-coloured flowers, which fold up in a pentagonal manner towards evening. There are seven or eight other species, one a native of Britain (S. hybrida), all being pretty, neat herbs.