INTRODUCTION.. 
“pee Foxglove is a plant ffficiently common in 
this ifland, and as we have but one fpeéies, 
and that fo generally known, J dhould -have 
thought it fuperfluous either to figure or defcribe it ; 
had I not more-than once feen the leaves of Mul- 
lein* gathered for thofe of Foxglove. On the con- 
tinent of Europe too, other fpecies are found, and 
I have been informed that our fpecies is very rare 
in fome parts of Germany, exifting. = y means 
of cultivation, in gardens. 
It Seidngs to ihe ad rote: of the’ Gea meee or the 
Dipynamia Ancrospermta. The effential charac- 
ters of the genus are, Cup with 5 divifions. Bloffom 
bell-fhaped, bulging. Capfule eggfhaped, 2-celled.— 
Lrnn. ; 
* 
DIGITA'LIS purpu'rea, Little leaves of the 
empalement egg-fhaped, fharp. Bloffoms blunt 
the upper lip CASS. Linn. 
~ 'Rere- 
Soest: 1. 2 
+ The trivial name purpurea is not a very happy one, for the 
bloffoms though generally purple, re Pe Whee 
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