260 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. cL. XIV. 



1. S. nodosa. Knotted-rooted Figicort. Leaves heart-shaped, acute, 



serrate, smooth ; corners of the stem acute ; root tuberous. Stem from 



two to three feet high, nearly simple, smooth : leaves stalked, un- 

 equally serrate : flowers in a panicled, leafy cluster, with a dull-green 

 corolla, having a livid purple lip. The whole plant emits a fetid, nau- 

 seating smell. Perennial : flowers in June and July : grows in woods 

 and shady places : frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. xxii. pi. 1544. Eng. Fl. 

 vol. iii. p. 137. 914. 



2. S. aquAtica. Water Figwort. Leaves heart-shaped, bluntish, de- 

 current on their stalks ; stem winged, root fibrous. Stem about three 



feet high, with membranous angles : cluster of many forked branches, 

 with numerous flowers, with the tube green, and the limb dark-red : 

 fetid like the last. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in watery places : 

 frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. xii. pi. 854. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 138. 915. 



3. S. Scorodonia. Balm-leaved Figwort. Leaves heart-shaped, doubly 



serrate, downy beneath ; cluster leafy. Stems about three feet high, 



branched, bluntly four-cornered, covered with soft spreading hairs : 

 flowers on axillar downy stalks, forming a leafy cluster : tube of the 

 corolla pale, lower lip dull-purple. Perennial : flowers in July and 

 August : grows on the banks of rivulets in Jersey and Cornwall, and in 

 Ireland. Eng. Bot. vol. xxxi. pi. 2209. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 139. 916. 



4. S. verndlis. Yellow Figwort. Leaves heart-shaped, doubly serrate, 

 downy ; flower-stalks axillar, solitary, forked, leafy ; corolla without an 



internal lobe. The whole plant downy : stem about two feet high, 



with slightly winged corners : leaves opposite, the uppermost alternate, 

 stalked, acute : flowers pale-yellow. biennial : flowers in April and 

 May : grows in hedges and thickets : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 567. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 139. 917. 



30. DIGITA'LIS. FOXGLOVE. 



Calyx of one leaf, deeply divided into five roundish, acute 

 segments, the upper narrower. Corolla bell-shaped ; tube large, 

 cylindrical at the base, dilated and bulging upwards ; limb small, 

 with four unequal segments, the upper recurved and slightly cleft, 

 the lower largest. Filaments awl-shaped, arising from the tube of 

 the corolla, declining ; anthers broad, two-lobed. Style thread- 

 shaped, as long as the stamens ; stigma cleft, acute. Capsule 

 egg-shaped, pointed, two-celled, two-valved, with a double par- 

 tition formed by the inflected margins of the valves. Named from 

 digitadulum, a thimble. 309. 



1. D. purpiirea. Foxglove. Segments of the calyx egg-shaped, acute ; 

 corolla obtuse, its upper lobe entire ; leaves egg-shaped, downy. 

 Stem erect, from two to four feet high : leaves alternate, irregularly 

 crenate, wrinkled and veined: cluster terminal, erect, simple, 'with 

 numerous large, pendulous, crimson flowers, elegantly mottled, and 

 hairy within. Infusion and tincture of the leaves are used in dropsy, 

 and for diminishing the rapidity of the pulse in inflammations. This is 

 one of the most elegant and showy of our native plants. Eiennial : 

 flowers in June and July: grows in dry hilly pastures, on the steep 

 banks of rivers, in rocky places, &c. : common. Eng. Bot. vol. xix. 

 pi. 1297. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 140. 918. 



