UO DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Digitalis. 



Gilsley speaks of this plant as " an efficacious remedy for ulcersj" 

 probably such as are scrofulous. 



4. S. vcrnalis. Yellow Figwoit. 



Leaves heart-shaped, doubly serrated, downy. Flower- 

 stalks axillary, solitary, forked, leafy. Corolla without 

 an interior lobe. 



5. vernalis. Linn. Sp. PL 8G4. TVilld. v. 3. 274. FL Br. 664. Engl. 

 Bot.v.S.t.o67. Hook. Scot. ISO, Lo7ul.t.70. Ft. Dan. t. 4[l. 



S. n, 327. Hall. Hist. v.\.\4l. 



S. (lore luteo. Bauli. Prodr. 112./. Ger. Em. 7\7.f. Riv. Monop. 

 Irr. I. 107. f. 2. 



S. montana maxima latifolia, flore luteo. Barrel. Ic. t. 273. 



Lamium Pannonicum aliud. Clus. Pann. 594./. 595. Hist. v. 2. 

 38./ 



In thickets, and under hedges, but rare. 



Near Bury St. Edmund's. .Sir T. G. Cullinn, Burt. In Surrey. 

 Huds. About Newburgh, Yorkshire. Rext. Archdeacon Peirson. 

 In a lane about two miles south of Stifkey, Norfolk, on the 

 right hand side. Dr. Hooker. It is also said to grow in Berk- 

 shire, Essex, and several ])arts of Wales 3 yet neither Dillenius 

 nor Ray takes notice of this species. 



Biennial. April, May. 



Root tuberous, scaly. Herh downy, of a light pleasant green. 

 Stem hollow, about 2 feet high, with 4 or 5 slightly winged an- 

 gles. Leaves in the latter case 3 together ; otherwise opposite ; 

 the uppermost alternate ; all stalked, broadly heart-shaped, 

 acute, sharply and doubly serrated, veiny. Ft. light yellow, on 

 axillary, repeatedly forked, stalks, accompanied at each fork by 



. small serrated leaves, or bracteas. Cal. hairy. Cor. ovate, tu- 

 mid ; contracted at the mouth, with a very small 5-lobed limb, 

 wanting the interior lobe. The stamens all spring from the 

 base of the corolla, as Dr. Hooker observes. Caps, ovate, acute, 

 with numerous minute seeds. 



This plant is less allied to otlier Scrophuluricc, in general resem- 

 blance, than to the Peruvian genus Calceolaria, to several s])e- 

 cies of which, see Sm. PL Ic. t.'2, 3, 4, it bears, in various points, 

 a great affinity. 



311. DIGITALIS. Foxglove. 



Linn. Gen. 313. Jitss. 120. Ft. Br. 665. Tourn. t. 73. Lam. t.52o. 

 Gccrtn. f. 53. 



Nat. Ord. Liiyklce. Linn. 28. SchropJndarice. Juss. 40. 



Cal. in 5 deep, acute or rounded, segments, permanent, 

 much shorter than the corolla; the upper one narrower 

 than the rest. Cor. bell-hhapcd; tube large, cylindrical 

 and conliacted at tlie base, clilalfd and luiiiitl llp\\ard.'^; 



