218 ORD. XII. Solanaceee, seu Luride. 
Fontana. Vide Phil. Trans. vol. lxx. Tobacco, taken by dogs, also produces 
vomiting. Gesner. Epist. lib. tt. p.79. The smoke of Tobacco has been success. 
fully used in the way of injection, by means of a proper instrument, for obstructions 
and inveterate constipations of the belly, ever since the time of Sydenham; and Haen, 
‘in his Rat. Med. gives several instances of its good effects: it is also recommended in 
cases of asyphxia, or, what has been termed, suspended animation. 
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DIGITALIS PURPUREA. _ COMMON FOX-GLOVP. 
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SYNONYMA. Digitalis. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Digitalis foliis 
calycinis ovatis, galeasimplice. Hal. Stirp. Helv. no. 330. Virga 
regia major, flore purpureo. Cesalp. 348. Aralda Bononiensibus. 
Gesner. Digitalis purpurea vulgaris. Park. 1653. Digitalis Pur- 
purea, Gerard. Herb.790. J. Bauh. Il. 811. Raii Hist. 767. 
Synop. p. 283. Flor. Dan.774. Curtis Flor. Lond. Withering’s 
Account of the Fox-glove. 
Varietates. .« Digitalis purpurea, folio aspero. Bauh. Pin. 243. 
& Digitalis alba, folio aspero, Bauh. Pin.244. Hort. Kew. 
Class Didynamia. Ord. Angiospermia. L. Gen. Plant, 758. 
Liss. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5~partitus, Cor. campanulata, 5-fida ventricosa. 
Caps. ovata, 2-locularis. 
Sp. Ch. D. calycinis foliolis ovatis acutis, corollis obtusis: labio 
superiore integro. 
THE root is biennial, branched, and fibrous; the stalk is erect, , 
simple, tapering, covered with fine hairs or down, and rises com- 
monly to the height of four or five feet; the leaves are large, oval, 
narrowed towards their points, obtusely serrated, veined, * downy, 
and stand upon short winged footstalks; the floral leaves or bractex 
| * On the under side these veins form a kind of net-work. 
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