126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



In waste places and hedges. Rare, and very doubtfully native. 

 It has occurred in numerous counties both in England and Scot- 

 land, but apparently never under circumstances which do not lead 

 to a suspicion of its adventitious origin. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring and Summer. 



Stem stout, 18 inches to 3 feet high, with 4 raised lines, but no 

 wings. Leaves nearly as broad as long, 1^ to 2\ inches in length, 

 sometimes so deeply divided as to be almost lobed. Corolla f inch 

 long, pale-yellow, with very short nearly equal lobes, the two 

 longer stamens and style slightly exserted. Capsule about the size 

 of a peppercorn, more conical than in the other species. Plant 

 pale yellowish-green, the leaves very thin and flaccid. 



Yellow Figicort. 



French, Scrophidaire Printaniere. German, FrilltUngs Braunwurz. 



Tribe III— DIGITALE^]. 



Corolla tubular, not spurred or saccate at the base, scarcely 

 bilabiate ; upper lip covered by the under one in bud. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous. Inflorescence simple, indefinite. Leaves all alternate. 



GENUS III.—D IGITALIS. Townef. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla tubular or campanulate, ventricose on 

 the under side, abruptly contracted at the base ; limb very short, 

 sub-erect, oblique, but scarcely bilabiate; the upper lip entire or 

 notched, the lower one 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynainous, included. 

 Anthers 2-celled. Capsule conical, 2-cellcd, septicidally 2-valved, 

 the upper valve also splitting loculicidally. Seeds very numerous, 

 minute. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, with alternate leaves and large 

 purple, yellow, white, or lurid horizontal or drooping flowers 

 in a simple raceme. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from the Latin word digitus, a finger, 

 from the resemblance of the flowers of the species to the fingers of gloves. It was so 

 named by Fuchs, a German botanist, possibly from digitabulum, a sort of finger-glove 

 or cap, used in gathering olives. It may be that the name Fuclis glove was corrupted 

 into Foxglove, the common name of the species ; but it is more probable that it comes 

 from Folks-glove, as mentioned under the D. purpurea. 



