2 3 o PLANTS GROWING IN LIGHT SOIL. 



flowers have hardly the charm of the deeply-tinted enrolled 

 buds which pique the interest with the expectancy of the 

 blossom. Often we find the foxglove blooming in the woods 

 when there is not another flower to be seen, and we therefore 

 greet it with an added amount of pleasure. 



D. flava, or downy false foxglove, Plate CXVIII, is per- 

 haps a little earlier in coming into bloom. It is a smaller 

 plant, very showy, and with beautiful bell-shaped flowers. 



FERN-LEAF, OR LOUSE WORT FALSE FOXGLOVE. 



(Plate CXJX.) 



Das$stoma Pedicitldria. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Figwort. Pale yellow. Scentless. Maine southward. August, September. 



Flowers: large, in a terminal leafy panicle. Calyx: irregularly cut; five- 

 lobed ; pubescent. Corolla : funnel-form; inflated ; with five slightly irregular 

 lobes; within woolly; pubescent. Stamens: four in pairs, one pair shorter 

 than the other; woolly. Anthers: lavender. Pistil: one. Leaves: pinnati- 

 fid ; the divisions much incised. Stem: branched; leafy. Root: parasitic. 



The blossoms from which the accompanying illustration was 

 made were picked in North Carolina ; and there, as along the 

 Atlantic coast, the fern-leaf foxglove is very lovely. There is 

 a sensitiveness about the plant that makes us fancy it to be 

 one of the timid spirits of nature. It resents being picked, 

 and the leaves and stems then turn quickly black and die. 



