Tas. 5999. 
DIGITALIS LEVIGATA. 
Native of Austria and Greece. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIACERZ.—Tribe DIGITALEA. 
Genus Diarrauis, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p- 449). 
Dierrauis levigata ; perennis, glaberrima foliis radicalibus oblongo- v. 
obovato-lanceolatis, caulinis oblongo- v. obovato-lanceolatis integerrimis 
Vv. serrulatis, racemo elongato laxifloro, bracteis inferioribus foliaceis, 
calycis segmentis late oblongis acutis dimidium tubi corolle eequantibus, 
Vv. brevioribus, corolla glaberrima aurantiaca, tubo superne ventricoso, 
labio superiore brevi recurvo 2-fido lobis rotundatis, inferioris lobis 
lateralibus brevibus obtusis intermedio adscendente porrecto multo 
longiore concavo obtuso pallide flavo, intus piloso et venoso, venis 
aurantiacis. 
Dierraris levigata, Waldst. and Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung., vol. ii. p- 171, t. 158; 
Lindl. Monog. Digit., t. 10; Reichb. Iconog. Crit., t. 155; Ic. Fl. Germ., 
Vol. xx. t. 1692 ; Benth. in DC, Prodr., vol. x. p. 450. 
A very rare European plant, hitherto found only in 
Croatia, on Mount Taygetus in the Morea, and a few other 
places in Greece ; though Jong lost to the country, it was 
formerly cultivated in England and is exceedingly well- 
figured in Lindley’s monograph of the genus Digitalis from 
4 specimen which flowered at Kew. 
The plant here figured was sent me by the Rev. M. J. Berke- 
ey, who raised it from seeds sent from near Fiume by Mrs. 
- Smith (née Glennie), and which flowered in August of 
the present year. It is a very handsome plant, two to three 
feet in height, and would make an admirable rock-work 
ornament. It grows on dry limestone rocks in its own > 
country. 
Descr. An erect, wholly glabrous perennial, two feet or 
more in height. Radical eaves, often withered at flowering, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1872, 
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