DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Linnsea. 141 



Da7i.t.74. BulLFr.t.2\. Dreves Bilderb. t. 46. Dalech. Hist. 

 83 1 . /, /. Dod. Pempt. 1 C9. /. 



D. n. 330. Hall. Hist. r. 1 . 1 43. 



Digitalis. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 104. 



Campanula sylvestris, seu Digitalis. Trag. Hist. 889./. 



In pastures, and about hedges or banks, on a gravelly or sandy 

 soil ; but not in Norfolk or Suffolk, though so abundant in most 

 counties. 



Biennial. June, July. 



Root of numerous long and slender fibres. Stem upright, wand- 

 like, leafy, mostly simple, roundish, with several sliglit angles, 

 downy, 3' or 4 feet high. Leaves alternate, ovate- or elliptic-ob- 

 long, crenate, downy, rugged and veiny, of a dull green ; taper- 

 ing at the base into winged /oo/»/aZA:s,- radical ones largest. 

 Cluster terminal, erect, simple, of numerous, sometimes 60, 

 large, pendulous, scentless, crmson Jlowers ; elegantly marked 

 with eye-like spots, as well as hairy, within. 



A variety with pure white^oz/;ers, dotted in like manner, but with 

 shades of cream-colour or pearl, is kept in gardens, and remains 

 tolerably constant from seed, the only means of propagation in 

 this instance. 



The English name appears to have been derived from Digitalis 

 Fuchsii; for that writer is the acknowledged author of the Latin 

 one, alluding to the fingers of a glove, which the flowers re- 

 semble. Yet Fo^ PJ'-S'<>F''j as I am told, occurs in Lye's Saxon 

 Dictionary, as the appellation of our plant ; which indeed is so 

 conspicuous and handsome, that we can hardly suppose our an- 

 cestors left it nameless. The Rev. Hugh Davies records several 

 Welch names for the Foxglove, and mentions having seen it 

 perfectly white by the road side at Penmynydd, and elsewhere. 

 Welch Botanologij 6 1 . 



The virtues of this herb, as a remedy for dropsy, are recorded by 

 Dr. Withering and others, and it is now still more celebrated 

 for lowering the pulse in pulmonary inflammation. 



312. LINN^A. Linnsea. 



Linn. Gen. 319. Juss. 211. Fl. Br. 66C. Lam. t. .536. M'ahlenb. 



Lapp. t.9. 

 Nat. Ord. Aggregatce. Linn. 48. Caprifolia. Juss. .08. 



Cah double, both permanent : that of the fruit inferior, of 



14 leaves; 2 interior opposite, minute, acute, smooth; 

 2 exterior opposite, contrary to the interior and much 

 larger, elliptical, concave, glandular, finally enlarged, and 

 closed over the interior leaves and fruit : that of thejfoa'er 

 superior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, erect, lanceolaj^, acute, 

 equal segments. Cor. of 1 petal, bell-shaped ; tube cy- 

 lindrical, gradually dilated upwards, abont twice the 



