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and pinnately veined ; the flowers are white or bluish, tubular, and 

 in dense racemes. The rhizome and roots are official (Fig. 380). 



PIG. 381. Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea): The terminal i-sided raceme with slightly 

 irregular, declined, tubular flowers, and a leaf of the first year's plant with long, winged 

 or laminate petiole. 



Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) is a tall, biennial, pubescent 

 herb, producing the first year a large number of basal leaves 

 (Fig. 381), and the second, a long raceme of drooping, tubular, 



