246 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
the rest. Corolla of one petal, nearly bell-shaped, above an 
inch long, purple, sometimes white, marked in the inside with 
blood-coloured spots and hairs. 
GrocrapuicaL Distrisurion.—Indigenous in Great Britain, 
and in the temperate and southern countries of Europe. 
Locaritizs.—In this country, in pastures, woods, and on 
banks, in a gravelly or sandy soil. Common in most counties, 
but not in Suffolk or Norfolk. The white variety has been 
found wild in several parts of England: in Worcestershire, 
near Bromsgrove, and near Hartlebury ; in Staffordshire, about 
Moxhall; and near Penmynydd, in Anglesey. 
Parts UsED IN MeEpDicInE, AnD Mover or PrEPARATION.— 
For homeopathic preparations, we use the fresh Leaves of the 
second year, gathered in the month of May, before the plant 
flowers. The juice is to be expressed, mixed with equal parts 
of spirits of wine, and diluted to the thirtieth attenuation. The 
leaves procured in the shops are sometimes adulterated with 
those of the Verbascum Thapsus and Symphytum officinale, but 
which adulteration is easily discovered by the spurious leaves 
being hairy on both sides. 
PuysioLocicaL Errrcrs.—On Vegetables. According to 
Marcet (Ann. de Chim. et de Phys., vol. xxix. p. 200), a watery 
extract of Digitalis killed a haricot plant in twenty-four hours. 
On Animals.—From an extensive series of experiments by 
Orfila (Tox. Général, vol. ii. p. 290) with the powder, extract, 
and tincture of the leaves, Foxglove appears to cause, in mode- 
rate doses, vomiting, giddiness, languor, and death in twenty- 
four hours, without any other symptoms of note; but in larger 
doses it likewise produces tremors, convulsions, stupor, and 
coma. According to Moiroud (Pharm. Vétér., p. 334), two 
ounces of the extract given to a horse produced death in twelve 
hours. — ; 
On Man.—In small and repeated doses on the healthy or- 
ganism, it produces headache, salivation, nausea, and vomiting; 
sey increase of the action of the kidneys; violent con- — 
