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DIGITALIS PURPUREA. COMMON FOX-GLOVE. 
STNONTMJ. Bigitalis, Pbarm.Lond.^ Edin. Digitalis folils 
calycinis ovatis, galea fimplice. Hal. Stlrp. Helv. no. 330. Virgai 
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regia major, flpre purpureo. Ca:falp, 348. Aralda Bononienfibus. 
Gefner. Digitalis purpurea vulgaris. Fark. 1653. Digitalis Pur- 
purea. Gerard. Herb, 790. J^. Bauh» II. 811. ~ Rait Hijl. 767. 
Synop. p. 283. jP/or. i)^;?. 774. Gurtis Flor, Lond, Withcri?tg's 
Account of the Fox-glove, . 
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Varietates,' « Digitalis purpurea, folio afpero. Baub. Pm. 243. 
/3 Digitalis alba, folio afpero. Baub, Pm, 244. Hort, Kew, 
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C/<2A« L)idynamia. Or^/. Angiofpermia, L, Ge?i, Plant, 758. 
E/T, Gen, Cb, Gal, 5-partitus. Gor. campanulata, 5-fida ventricoili. 
Gaps, ovata, 2-locularis. 
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Sp. Gh, D. calycinis foliolis ovatis acutis, corollis obtufis : labio 
fuperiore integro. • 
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THE root is biennial, branched, and fibrous: the ftalk is ered: 
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fimple, tapering, covered with fine hairs or down, and rifes com 
monly to the height of four or five feet ; the, leaves are large, oval, 
narrowed towards their points, obtufely ferrated, veined, * downy, 
and ftand upon fliort winged footftalks : the floral leaves or brad:e 
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fp e ar-fli ap e d , feffile, purplifh towards the point ; the calyx confifls of 
five fegments, which are elliptical, pointed, nerved, or ribbed, and the 
uppermoft fegment is narrower than the others; the flowers grow in a 
long terminal fpike, chiefly on one fide, they are large, monopetalous, 
pendulous, bell-fhaped/ purple, and marked on the infide with little 
eyes, or dark coloured dots, placed in whitiih rings ; the tubular part 
appears inflated, and almoft cylindrical, but fwelling towards the 
bafe, and opening at the limb into four irregular, fhort, obtufe feg 
ments, of thefe the uppermoft is the Ihorteft,* appearing truncated 
cut off tranfverfely ; the peduncles are round, fhort, villous, and bend 
* On the under fide thefe veins form a kind of net- work. 
* The flowers bear fome refemblance to the finger of a glove 3 hence the name Dio-Italis. 
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