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DlGITATIS ORIENTALIS. LEVANT FoX-GLOVE. 



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 Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA, 



Generic Character. 



Cat, 5-partitus. Cor. campanulata, 4 — 5-loba, ventri- 

 cosa. Caps, ovata, 2-locularis; 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Digitatis orientalis ; foliolis calycinis lanceolatis pube- 

 scentibus, corollas labio inferior! maximo spathulato. 

 Lamarck EncyL 2. p. 280. Bot. Reg. 554. 



Digitalis orientalis ; calycinis foliolis oblongis acutis pu- 

 bescentibus, corollae lobis lateralibus labii inferioris 

 obtussimis, intermedio spathulato ciliato piano, floribus 

 distantibus, bracteis oblongis pubescentibus calyce 

 brevioribus. Willd. Sp. PL 3. p. 286. Persoon Syn. 

 2. p. 163. 



Digitalis orientalis Tragopogi folio, flore albido. Tourn. 

 Cor. 9. 



This plant was first discovered by the celebrated botanist 

 Tournefort, during his travels in the Levant ; and 

 Lamarck, in that valuable compilation, the botanical part 

 of the Encyclopedic Methodique, has given a description of 

 it from Tournefort's specimen, preserved in Jussieu's 

 herbarium. But M. Poiret, in the supplement to the same 

 work, has erroneously referred this species to Digitalis 

 lanata ; which, though nearly allied, is very distinct. 

 The latter plant is figured at No. 1159 of the Botanical 

 Magazine ; but we believe that a living specimen of orien- 

 talis has never been seen in this country, nor even in 

 Europe, till the seed was transmitted from Constantinople 

 to Sir Joseph Banks by Lady Liston, to whose zeal our 



gardens 



