FIGWORT FAMILY 3O1 



nearly round, flattened at the top. (Name in honour of Dr. 

 Humphrey Sibthorp, Professor of Botany at Oxford from 1747 to 



•783) , . 



r. ^S". eiiropcea (Cornish Money- wort). — The only British species, 

 an elegant little plant, with slender, thread-like stems creeping 

 along the ground in tangled masses ; small, round, notched, 

 downy leaves of a delicate green ; and very minute, pale pink and 

 yellow flowers. — Banks of springs and rivulets in Cornwall, and 

 occasionally in other southern counties. In habit it approaches 

 HydrocotyU vulgaris (Marsh Penny-wort), but it is smaller and 

 downy and its leaves are notched. Fl. June — October. Perennial. 



siBTHORPiA EUROP.^A {Comisli Money-zvort). 



8. Digitalis (Foxglove). — Tall plants with radical and cauline 

 leaves, and large, monosymmetric, bell-shaped fioivers in a long, 

 terminal raceme ; calyx deeply and unequally 5-lobed ; corolla 

 slightly 4 — 5-notched, hairy inside ; capsule ovate. (Name from 

 the Latin digitus, a finger, from the glove-like shape of the 

 flower.) 



I. D. purpurea (Purple Foxglove). — The only British species, 

 a stately plant, 2 — 6 feet high, with large, wrinkled, downy leaves, 

 and a tall, slightly branched, tapering raceme of numerous hand- 

 some, deep rose-coloured, bell-shaped flowers, which droop as they 

 expand. On the inside the corolla is beautifully spotted ; and it 

 occasionally occurs of a pure white. — Woods ; common ; but not 

 on limestone. The name Foxglove is a corrui)tion of joWs-glove ; 



