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but its flowers are of a deep yellow colour, less than half an inch 

 long, with entire bracts, and equal, open lips. The corolla is only 

 twice the length of the calyx, and the lanceolate leaves are very 

 seldom toothed. 



iiiLLET Grass. 



Bearded wheat. 



• The same order {ScropJmlariacece) contains the handsome and 

 favourite Foxglove {Digitalis purpurea), which grows abundantly in 

 most dry woods and shady wastes, flowering from June to August. 

 Its stout, unbranchcd stem varies from two to six feet in height, a 

 large j^roportion being the axis of a long one-sided raceme of 

 beautiful, drooping, purple or, occasionally, \\hitc flowers. The 



