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DIGITALIS ambigua. 



Greater yellow Fox-glove 





DIDYNAMIA ANUWSPEHMLi. 



DIGITALIS. SuprilfoL 46. 



D. ambigua, calycinis foliolis lanceolatis inaqualibus, corollis pub 

 tibus ; galea lata leviter emargiuata i labii inferioris lacuna in« i 



*• * • • 1 1 • • m 



escen* 



media 



acuta, foiiis ovato-lauceolatis pubesceutibus. lioth Cutaltcta but. 

 fasc. 2. 59. 



Digitalis ambigua. Lin. suppl. 280. Si/st. veg. 14. 5(i2. Wi/M. .71. 

 7>{. 3. 285; (excluso syuonymo Murray, dictante lioth). Hurt. 

 J -foa>. 2. 345. ed. 2. 4. 28. Schkahr hdndb. n. 1729. f. 174. Ro/A 



' we*/e beytr. 1. 2. 15. itf. in ann. of bot. 2. 37. Ehrhart phytoph. 



f>2. 



D. grandiflora. Allion. pedem. 258. -term. 4' Deca/id. Jt. frattf. 3. 

 596. 



D. ochroleuca. Jacgr. awsfr. 1. 36. f. 37. Pm. syn. 2. 162. 



D. Jutea. Mattusch. sil. n. 471. — 0. l^m herbom. n. 487. 



D. purpurea. Gme/. Ni$, 194. 



D. foiiis calyciuis lanceolatis, galea incisa, faucibus uiaculosis. llalL 



he/v. n. 331. 

 Digitalis. Riv. monop. 104. 

 D. major fl. luteo amplo. Park. par. t. 8S1. /. 4. 

 D. flore luteo. Besl. ei/st. rvst. \.f. 3. 



Perennis. Caulis l-2-pedalis, simplex, foliosus, subviscido-villosus, erectu.u 

 Folia sparsa, multa, nee conferta, sessilia, elliptico-lanceo/ata, nervosa, H 

 prono et ad margines villosa, a supino parcius modoque submida, obsoletiu* 

 serridata, basi utrinque defexa. Racemus terminalis, multiflorus, laxi 

 spicatus, secu?idus, folia ceo-bracteatus ; bracteis pedicello longioribus. Flores 

 cernui, villosi. Foliola calycina 3 superiora an gust e lanccolata f 2 inferiora 

 lanceolate oblonga et duplo ferme laliora. Cor. ampla, parum purpurea? 

 minor, ventricosa, lulea s&peque venis fulvofuscescentibus reticulata, intus 

 pilosa ; labium superius brevissimum, roLundatum ( indent atione ex Jacqmno 

 varia), mferlus product iiis trilobum, lobis triangularibus, medio duplo tatiore* 

 Pistillum Sf stamina partlm pubescent ia. Capsulae calyce duplo longiores. 



Ambigua was first tlistins; 



de 



appellation by Professor Murray. Yet, according to Dr. 



Koth, the plant which that botanist had in view was not 

 the present, but one between it and lulea, nearer akin to the 

 latter, and since named media by the Doctor, but adopted 

 by Persoon in his " Synopsis," under the title of' intermedia. 

 Thus, should the two plants prove to be really distinct 



species, the name of ambigua will desiguate the one fo 



