252 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
COROLLIFLORA. ScROPHULARIACES. 
DIGITALIS. (Foxetove.) 
Generic Character. Calya in five deep unequal segments. 
Corolla bell-shaped, inflated beneath, mouth with four or five 
unequal lobes, and two lips. 
Dierratis purPUREA. Purple Foxglove. Perhaps the 
most stately and beautiful of our wild plants, bearing com- 
parison with many of the most cherished productions of the 
garden. ‘The large lower leaves, and stalk of three or four 
feet high, bearing the long spike of numerous, drooping, 
purple-spotted flowers, make it very striking on our dry 
banks; but it is scarcely known in Norfolk and Suffolk, 
seeming to love rocky and hilly counties. The flower is 
well worthy of examination on many accounts. The freckled 
and spotted bell is elegantly shaped, somewhat lke the 
finger of a glove, and the stamina, two long and two short, 
are curiously formed, and placed so as to touch the pistil. 
The flower is sometimes white. Dozgts de la vierge, Gants 
de Notre Dame, are the French familiar terms for this well- 
known plant, for which we are contented with a less high- 
sounding name. 
