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quantity of digitaline, which has a marked power to slow 

 the movement of the heart and lower the bodily temper- 

 ature. Yet, conversely, they have a pharmaceutical 

 value, on which my work entitled Le Jardin de I'Jierboriste 

 may be consulted. All varieties are boldly ornamental 

 for wild garden or coarser borders, asking nothing 

 beyond somewhat rocky ground and full sun. The 

 distinctive characteristics are the five-fold calyx, the 

 bellshaped, tubular corolla, with fairly similar lips. 



D. ambigua (grandifloraj (PI. LXXXVI). Stems 24-in., 

 erect, hairy ; leaves oblong, lanceolate ; flowers large, 

 ochreous-yellow, in terminal spikes. June-September. 

 Mountain districts throughout Switzerland. 



In D. lutea (PJ. LXXXVI) the leaves are glabrous, deep 

 green ; the flowers small in long, narrow spikes. Flowers 

 all summer in mountain and lower regions. 



Erinus 



Eng. : Erinus ; Fr. : Mandelize; Ger. : Leberbalsam. 



E. alpinus (PI. LXXXV11). One of the prettiest sights 

 imaginable is that of the pink carpet spread by these 

 plants, as they nestle against walls of rock under the full 

 sun or in chinks of old walls. It is a sweetly graceful 

 and cheery plant, whose soft pink flowers, repeated by 

 hundreds at a time upon one clump, fill the air around 

 with a delicate and highly pleasing fragrance. We have a 

 white and also a bright carmine variety. The Pyrenean 

 cousin, E. hirsutus, distinguished by downy hairs from 

 the glabrous alpinus, has been planted and acclimatised in 

 Swiss alpine gardens. Both forms or varieties are 

 excellent for giving a touch of life to rocks, walls, or 

 banks in alpine gardens. The introduction of them 

 cannot be recommended too highly; just a few seeds 



