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Digitalis tomentosa. Wooly leaved 

 Fox-Glove. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, 4-5-loba, ventricosa. 

 Caps, ovata, bilocularis. 



Specific Character. 



Digitalis tomentosa; foliis tomentosis rugosis serratis 

 in petiolum decurrentibus utrinque concoloribus, floribus 

 quaquaversum spectantibus. 



Descr. Stem about 2 feet high, somewhat branched, 

 villous. Leaves alternate, oblong-oval, petiolated, decurrent 

 down the petiole and a little on the stem, tomentose and 

 rugose on the under side. Terminal raceme many flowered, 

 side-ones few-flowered: Flowers bright blush-coloured, large, 

 spread in every direction. Bractes lanceolate, quite entire, 

 longer than the peduncle. Peduncle rising, not horizontal, 

 calyx villous: segments oval, the uppermost one smaller by 

 nearly half than the rest. Tube of Corolla within the calyx 

 white, above the calyx dilated into an oblong faux, convex 

 underneath, flattened above: mouth gaping, a little hairy: 

 upper-lip short, rounded, slightly emarginate: lower-lip 

 3-lobed: middle lobe long, round oval, spotted and hairy 

 within, side lobes very short. Stamens within the faux: 

 anthers didymous: lobes finally so divaricate as to stand at 

 right angles with the filament. Style equal to the stamens: 

 stigma 2-lipped. Germen conical, 2-celled: ovules affixed 

 to a central receptacle. 



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