280 OBSERVATIONS 



Je dois à l'obligeance de M. Decaisne , la communication 

 d'un Mémoire publié par M. Henslow dans les Transactions de 

 la Société philomatique de Cambridge, sur une Digitale hybride 

 observée dans le jardin botanique de celle ville, et provenant 

 des Dig. purpurea et D. lutea. Voici la description que M. 

 Henslow ^donne de sa plante. 



Digilalis purpureo-lulea. 



Stem about 3 1/2 feet. 



Racem. about 1 1/2 d°, secund, dense, nodding above. 



Leaves nearly smoolh above, quile woolly below , somevvhat 



soft, densate. — Radicale subpetiolate broadly-lan- 



ceolate; caulin. sessile, narrower. 

 Bracteas lanceolate. 

 Pedicels about the length of the calyx, and somevvhat shorler 



than the bracteas. 

 Flowers médium size, nearly horizontal. 

 Calyx moderatly spreadingin flower, afterwardsconnivent. 



Sepals ovato-lanceolate, theodd onemuch narrower; 



hairy on the margins. 

 Corolla yellow ground, tinted vvith red. A few dark purplish 



red spots surrounded by a paler ring in the throat 



and tube. 



Smoolh, with haîrs in the mouth. 



Distinctly 4-lobed, the lobes blunt ; the uppermost 



notched. 

 Stamens length of the tube, nearly parallel. 

 Anthers yellow inclining So orange, with a few small scat- 



lered purple spots. 

 Style cylindrical, with a few hairs on the lower part. 

 Stigma very obtuse. 

 Ovarium oblong-pubescent (1). 



