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DIGITALIS* laciniata. 



Cut-leaved Foxglove 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA 



Nat. 07'd, SCROPHULARINEiE. 



DIGITALIS. — Supr^, vol. 1. fol. 48. 



D, laciniata; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis laciniatis glabris, racemo subse- 

 cundo, corollis pubescentibus : laciniis ovatis barbatis, bracteis omnibus 



pedicellis multo brevioribus. 



Caulis herbaceus, erectus, ramosus, glaber. Folia laciniata, acuminata^ 

 glabra, superioribus apice et basi integerrimis. Racemi numerosi, subse- 

 cundiy ylabriy foliis multb evectiores. Bracteae ovatcB, pedicellis multo 

 breviores. Calyx patens, corolld multb brevior, sepalis ovatis. Corolla 



biJidOy infi 



ifundibularis , 



Stamina tubi longitudine. 



Specimens of this new species of Foxglove were com- 

 municated to us by Messrs. Young, from their Nursery at 

 Epsom, in July last. It had been raised from seeds col- 

 lected upon the mountains about Malaga, by Mr. Philip 

 Barker Webb. It is unquestionably a new species, dif- 

 fering from D. lutea, to which it is most nearly related, m 

 its cut leaves, and short bractese. 



A hardy perennial, increased by division of the roots, 

 and flowering in June and July. 



Stem erect, branched, smooth. Leaves jagged, acumi- 

 nate, smooth, the uppermost entire at the point and base. 

 Racemes numerous, somewhat one-sided, smooth, much 



♦ So called from the fancied resemblance of the flower to a thimble, 

 digitahulum. The Germans call the Foxglove Fingerhut, which is the 

 same thing. 



