DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Linnsea. 141 



Dan. t. 74. Bull. Fr. t.2\. Dreves Bilderb. f. 46. Dalech. Hist. 

 831./,/. Dod.Pempt. \69.f. 



D. n.330. Hall. Hist. V. L 143. 



Digitalis. Riv. Monop. Irr.t. 104. 



Campanula sylvestris, sen Digitalis. Trag. Hist. 889. j. 



In pastures, and about hedges or banks, on a gravelly or sandy 

 soil } but not in Norfolk or Suffolk, though so abundant in most 

 counties. 



Biennial. June, July. 



Root of numerous long and slender fibres. Stem upright, wand- 

 like, leafy, mostly simple, roundish, with several slight angles, 

 downy, 3 or 4 feet high. Leaves alternate, ovate- or elliptic-ob- 

 long, crenate, downy, rugged and veiny, of a dull green -, taper- 

 ing at the base into v^nn^ed footstallis ; radical ones largest. 

 Cluster terminal, erect, simple, of numerous, sometimes 60, 

 large, pendulous, scentless, crimson ^flowers ; elegantly marked 

 with eye-like spots, as well as hairy, within. 



A variety with pure wKiteJloivers, dotted in like manner, but with 

 shades of cream-colour or pearl, is kept in gardens, and remains 

 tolerably constant from seed, the only means of propagation in 

 this instance. 



The English name appears to have been derived from Digitalis 

 Fuchsii ; for that writer is tlie acknowledged author of the Latin 

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

 semble. Yet F(i ■ cj. j'ojTf, as 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 Davics records several 

 Welch names for the Foxglove, and mentions having seen it 

 perfectly white by the road side at I'enmynydd, and elsewhere. 

 fVelrh Botanologij 61. 



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

 Dr. U'ithering and others, and it is now still more celebrated 

 for lowering the pulse in pulmonary inflammation. 



'M'l. LINN.EA. Linna^a. 



Linn. Gen. 319. Juss. 211. 17. Br. C)C^C). Lam. I. .■>36. Jf'ahlcnb. 



La)>p. t. 9. 

 Nat. Old. A<!:<rr('(rcil(V. Linn. IvS. Caprifolia. Juss. fyS. 



CaL double, both permanent: that of the /;7/// interior, of 

 4 leaves; 'I interior opposite, miiuito, acute, smooth ; 

 2 exterior opposite, contrary to the inteiioi- and much 

 larirer, elliptical, concave, <»laiulular, finally enlar<red, and 

 closed over the interior leaves and fruit : that of \\\efl(nicr 

 .superior, of 1 leal^ in 5 deep, erect, lanceolate, acute, 

 equal sei^ments. Cor. of 1 petal, bell-shaped ; tube cy- 

 limlrical, gradually dilated upward^, about twice the 



