140 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Digitalis. 



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

 small serrated leaves, or hracteas. 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 other Scrophulari^, in general resem- 

 blance, than to the Peruvian genus Calceolaria, to several spe- 

 cies of which, see Sm. PL Ic. t. 2, 3, 4, it bears, in various points, 

 a great affinity. 



311. DIGITALIS. Foxglove. 



Lmn.Gew. 313. Juss.\20. FLBr.GGo. Tourn.t.7S. Lam.L525. 

 Gcertn.t. 53. 



Nat. Ord. Luridce, Linn. 28. Scrophularice. 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-shaped ; tube large, cylindrical 

 and contracted at the base, dilated and tumid upwards ; 

 limb small, in 4 unequal segments, the upper one re- 

 curved, slightly cloven, lower one largest, Filam. awl- 

 shaped, from the tube of the corolla towards the base, 

 bent, declining. Antlu deeply cloven, acute. Germ, 

 ovate, pointed. Style thread-shaped, as long as the sta- 

 mens. Stigma cloven, acute. Caps, ovate, pointed, the 

 length of the calyx, of 2 cells, and 2 cloven valves, whose 

 inflexed margins form a double partition at each side. 

 Seeds very numerous, small, oblong, angular, attached to 

 a central oblong partition, in each ceil. 



Some foreign species have an elongated lower lip. 



A very handsome genus, of large, herbaceous, rarely shrub- 

 by, plants, biennial or perennial, with simple, undivided, 

 downy or smooth, serrated or entire, alternate leaves. FL 

 numerous, very ornamental, purplish, yellow, or tawny, 

 in long, simple, bracteated clusters or spikes. Qualities 

 powerfully emetic and sedative ; under proper manage- 

 ment useful. 



1. Y>. purpurea. Purple Foxglove. 



Segments of the calyx ovate, acute. Corolla obtuse ; its 

 upper lobe scarcely cloven. Leaves downy. 



D. purpurea. Linn. Sp, PL 866. Willd. v. 3. 283. FL Br. 663. 

 EngL BoL t\ 1 9. ^. I 297. Curt. Land. fasc. 1 . L 48. M'oodv. t. 24. 

 Raii Syn."^ 283. Ger. Em. 700. f.^ Fuchs. HisL893.f. FL 



