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times two inches long, and are crowded together in close spikes. 

 Leaves lanceolate. 

 O. S. Lesser Snapdragon not an uncommon plant in corn fields. 



FIGWORT. SCROPHULARIA. 



WATER FIGWORT. Scrophularia aquatica. 



Plate 9, fig. 8. 



On the side of ditches and river-banks, two or three feet 

 high, blossoming in July and August. The flowers are rin- 

 gent, their tube swelled out, so as to be nearly globular, and 

 each is half inclosed by a green, smooth, blunt-pointed calyx. 

 Upper lip of the corolla chocolate-colored, with a scale upon 

 it ; under lip of three parts, bent back, and pink-edged. 

 Flowers in little opposite distant branches, with a simple bract 

 beneath them. Leaves oval, toothed, stalked, opposite, often 

 winged with two very small leaves on the leaf-stalk. Stem 

 square with a wing at each edge. Capsule round, two-valved, 

 with many seeds. Root fibrous. The flowers are like little 

 helmets, and the capsules like little bullets. 



O. S.~ Knotted Figwort, like the above, but with a knotted root; Balm- 

 leaved Figwort a very rare plant ; and Yellow Figwort an early and 

 beautiful Spring flower now and then found wild. 



FOXGLOVE. DIGITALIS. 

 PURPLE FOXGLOVE. Digitalis purpurea. 



Plate 9, fig. 9. 



One of the tallest, most richly colored, and noblest plants 

 that our country produces. There are only two or three of 

 the Eastern Counties of England where it is not common. In 

 the West and the North it is particularly abundant, rendering 

 in the Summer and Autumn every thicket gay, raising aloft 

 in every hedge and bank its tall spire loaded with numerous 

 magnificent dropping bell-shaped and beautifully-spotted pur- 

 ple flowers, (sometimes white.) Its leaves are large, ovate, 

 serrated, and hairy. The calyx is a little hairy ; the capsule 

 quite smooth and pear-shaped, with a very long style at the 

 end of it. It is full of minute seeds. The flowers are each 

 nearly two inches long, and turn down all on the same side of 



