SCROPHTJIAEIKEJE. 399 



Calyx with 4 naiTOw segments. Coi-olla scarcely longer, the 2 upper lobes 

 yellowish, the 3 lower broader and pink. 



In moisf, shady places, along the western coasts of Europe, penetrating 

 eastward to a very few stations round the Mediterranean, and extending 

 northwards to the Channel Islands, soutliern Ireland, and the south-west 

 of England. FL summer. 



YIII. FOXGLOVE. DIQITALIS. 



Biennials or perennials, with stout, erect, usually simple stems, alternate 

 leaves, and showy flowers, in long, terminal, one-sided, simple racemes. 

 Calyx of 5 unequal sepals or segments. Corolla tubular, contracted above 

 the base, then much inflated, with the limb shortly 4- or 5-lobed ; the lateral 

 lobes outside the upper one ia the bud, and tlie lowest usually the longest. 

 Stamens 4. Capsule pointed, opening at tlie partition in 2 valves, with 

 numerous small seeds. 



A European and North Asiatic genus, of which several species besides 

 our own are occasionally cultivated in flower-gardens, especially the yeUow 

 JD. grandijlora. 



1. Purple Foxglove. Digitalis purpurea, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1297.) 



Koot usually biennial, but will sometimes form a stock, wloich will flower 

 a second or even a third time. Radical leaves on long stalks, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6 inches long or more, coarsely veined and downy. Flowering 

 stems 2 to 3 or even 4 feet liigh, with a few alternate shortly-stalked leaves 

 in the lower part, the upper part occupied by a long stately raceme of pur- 

 ple flowers, each Ij inches long. Four of the calyx-segments broad and 

 leafy, the fifth upper one much narrower and more pointed. Corolla beau- 

 tifully spotted inside, with 4 short lobes, the lowest about twice the length 

 of the others and hairy inside. 



On dry, hilly wastes, and roadsides, in many parts of western and central 

 Europe, northwards into Scandinavia, but almost unknown in limestone 

 districts. Abundant in several parts of Britain. Fl. spring and svmimer. 



IX. VERONICA. VEEONICA. 



Herbs (or shrubs in a few exotic species), with opposite stem-leaves, and 

 small flowers, usually blue or white, sometimes arranged in spikes or racemes, 

 or in the axils of alternate floral leaves, 4- or 5-cleft. Corolla with a very 

 short tube, the limb rotate, deeply 4-cleft, the lower segment the narrowest. 

 Stamens 2. Capsule more or less flattened laterally (at right-angles to the 

 partition), and opening round the edges in 2 valves. Seeds few. 



A numerous genus in the northern hemisphere, with a few species spread- 

 ing uito the tropics and far into the southern hemisphere, whilst others are 

 peculiar to Austraha and New Zealand. Among the latter the V. speeiosa, 

 salicifolia, Lindleyana, and other shrubby or half-shrubby ones are much 

 cultivated in our gardens. 



Perennials, with the flowers in leafless spikes or racemes. 

 Spikes or racemes terminal. 

 Stem erect, with a long, dense, terminal spike of flowers . .1. Spiked V. 



