864 DIGITALIS. [CLASS XIV. ORDER II. 



it may be useful. In Sweden the plaut boiled in milk is used for the 

 purpose of destroying flies. 



6. L. mi'nor, Desf. (Fig. 1000.) least Toadflax. Downy, glan. 

 dulous; stem erect, much branched; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, petio- 

 lated, mostly alternate; racemes terminal lax; cafyx of oblong 

 segments, longer than the spur, but much shorter than the slender 

 pedicle; seeds ovate, furrowed. 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 239, — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 

 192. — Antirrhinum minor, Linn. — English IJotany, t. 2014. — English 

 Flora, vol. iii. p. 135. 



Root slender, fibrous. Stem erect, from one to about twelve inches 

 high, slender, mostly much branched and bushy, clothed with soft 

 glandular down. Leaves linear lanceolate, obtuse, tapering into a 

 footstalk, downy, the lower opposite, somewhat ovate, the upper alter- 

 nate. Inflorescence terminal lax racemes, of more or less numerous 

 flowers, each arising from the axis of slender hracteas or floral leaves. 

 Pedicle slender, often an inch long, always much longer than the 

 calyx, which is five-cleft, the segments linear, hairy. Corolla small, 

 purple, the tube short, elongated into a short obtuse spur, the upper 

 lip short, of two spreading lobes, the lower white, of three unequal 

 reflexed ones, the palate prominent, downy, yellow. Capsules large 

 for the size of the plant, ovate, obtuse, slightly downy. Seeds nume- 

 rous, ovate, brown, numerously furrowed. 



Habitat. — Sandy corn fields, especially in the Midland and Southern 

 Counties of England ; rare in Scotland, and only about Glasgow ; 

 said to have been found at Sundayswell, Ireland. 



Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



This is an extremely variable plant in its size, and is found some- 

 times with a simple stem, but mostly much branched and bushy ; its 

 flowers are small, but delicately formed and very beautiful. A species 

 is found growing on the sandy waste places by the sea in some parts of 

 the Continent, L. littoralis, Bernhard. Jt is nearly allied to L. minor ^ 

 from which it is distinguished by its pedicles not being longer than the 

 calyx segments, and the lobes of the upper lip close, not spreading. 

 Tt is not improbable that the same species may be found on the 

 Southern coast of England, but overlooked as L. minor. 



GENUS XXXII. DIGITA'LIS.— Linn. Fox-glove, 



Nat. Ord. Scrophclaria'ce^.. Lind. 



Gen. Char. CaZj/o; in five unequal segments. CoroZZa campanulate, 

 the limb oblique, of four or five unequal lobes, the upper one 

 emarginate. Stamens inserted into the base of the corolla. 



