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Digitalis Lanata. Woolly-Spiked 

 Fox-Glove. 



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C/rf/J <^«(/ Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cat. 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, 5-fida, ventricofa. Cap/, 

 ovata, a-locularis. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



DIGITALIS Janata ; fpica fimplici lanata, labii inferioris 



lobo intermedio oblongo piano glabro: laterali- 



bus acutis. 

 DIGITALIS lanata. JVilld. Sp. PL 3. 287. Ehrh. Beilr. 7. 



p. 152. Waldji. et Kitaib. Plant. Hung. \. p. 76. 



/. 74, Donn Hort. Cantab. 141. 



Descr. Herbaceous, perennial. Stem fimple, ere&, an- 

 gular, fmooth at the lower part, woolly above, terminated in 

 a crowded fpike. Leaves lanceolate, fubtrinerved, fmooth. 

 Bracles like the leaves : lower ones longer than the flowers, 

 ciliated ; becoming gradually fmaller and more woolly towards 

 the top. Calyx feflfile : fegmcnts lanceolate, acute, woolly. 

 Corolla irregular, tubular-campanulate : tube inflated at the 

 bafe : faux gaping, variegated with ruft-coloured net-work : 

 limb bilabiate : teeth of the upper lip two, fhort, pointed : 

 lower lip 3-Iobed, lateral lobes fhort and pointed like the teeth 

 of the upper lip : middle lobe oblong, whitifh, fmooth, flat. 

 Stamens didynamous : two lower filaments longeft, fpirally 

 twifted at the bafe : anthers bipartite, at firft yellow, after- 

 wards ruft-coloured. Germen conical, terminated in a Itraightiih 

 hairy perfiftent^/^. Stigma bipartite. 



Native of Hungary. Hardy. Flowers in June, July, and 

 Auguft. Propagated by feeds. Introduced, according to 

 Donn, in 1790. Communicated by Meflrs. Napier and 

 Chandler, Nurferymen at Vauxhall, in 1807. 



