142 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Linntea. 



The English name appears to have been derived from Digitalis 

 Fuchsii • for that writer is the acknowledged author of the Latin 

 one, alluding to the fingers of a glove, whicli the flowers re- 

 semble. Yet Foxey-jlope, iis I am told, occurs in Lye's Saxon 

 Dictionary, as the appellation of our plant; which indeed is so 

 conspicuous and handsome, that we can hardly suppose our an- 

 cestors left it nameless. The Rev. Hugh Davies records several 

 Welch names for the Foxglove, and mentions having seen it 

 perfectly white by the road side at Penmynydd, and elsewhere. 

 Welsh Botanologij Gl. 



The virtues of this herb, as a remedy for dropsy, are recorded by 

 Dr. Withering and others, and it is now still more celebrated 

 for lowering the pulse in pulmonary inflammation. 



312. LINNiEA. Linnsea. 



Linn. Gen. 2,\Q. Juss.2\\. Ft. Br. 6G6. Lam.t.536. M'ahlenb 

 Lapp. t. 9. 



Nat. Ord. Aggregatce. Linn. 48. Caprifolia. Juss. 58. 



Cal. double, both permanent : that of the fruit inferior, of 

 4 leaves; 2 interior opposite, minute, acute, smooth; 

 2 exterior opposite, contrary to the interior and much 

 larger, elliptical, concave, glandular, finally enlarged, and 

 closed over the interior leaves and fruit: that of thej^owrr 

 superior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, erect, lanceolate, acute, 

 equal segments. Cor. of 1 petal, bell-shaped ; tube cy- 

 lindrical, gradually dilated upwards, about twice the 

 length of the superior calyx ; limb in 5 deep, nearly equal, 

 slightly spi'eading segments. Filam. awl-shaped, from 

 the base of the corolla, shorter than its limb ; the 2 up- 

 permost shortest. Anth. incumbent, versatile, oblong, 

 compressed. Germ, globular, below the calyx of the 

 flower, of 3 cells. Style cylindrical, slightly swelling up- 

 ward, declining, the length of the corolla. Stigma ob- 

 tuse. Bcny dry, ovate-oblong, of 1 cell, membranous, 

 closely invested witli the inferior calyx, and crowned with 

 the superior one. Seed solitary, filling the cavity, ovate- 

 oblong, with a thin simple skin ; embryo inverted, in the 

 centre of the fleshy albumen, with a pair of oblong coty- 

 ledons turned downwvard. 



A trailing, somewhat shrubby plant, the only known spe- 

 cies of an elegant aspect, and rendered most interesting 

 to a botanist on account of the name, given with the con- 

 currence of Linnaeus, by his friend Dr. J. F. Gronovius, 

 whose letters to Dr. Richardson, with many particulars 

 concerning him and his works, may be found in the Lift- 



