260 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. [CL. XIV. 



1. S.nodosa. Knotted-rooted Fig wort. 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, 

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

 green corolla, having a livid purple lip. The whole plant emits a 

 fetid, nauseating 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. aqudtica. Water Fig wort. Leaves heart-shaped, bluntish, 



decurrent 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. Eny. Bot. vol. xxxi. pi. 2209. 

 Eng. Fl.vol. iii. p. 139. 916. 



4. S. verndlis. Yellow- Figicort. Leaves heart-shaped, doubly 

 serrate, downy ; flower- stalks axillar, solitary, forked, leafy ; co- 

 rolla 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. Bi- 

 ennial : 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 partition formed by the inflected margins 

 of the valves. Named from digitabulum, a thimble. 309. 



1. D. purpurea. 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. Biennial : 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. 



