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It is a native of Spain and Italy, and flowers 
in July. , 
C, Bauhine calls it Digitalis major lutea five 
pallida parvo flore. 
3. Great-flowered yellow Foxglove. 
Digitalis lutea magno flore. 
The root is very large, and runs obliquely 
under the futface, fending up from various parts 
clufters of leaves, and numerous ftalks. 
The leaves that rife from the root are broad, 
oblong, and of a pale green, and a little dented 
at the edge. 
The ftalks are round, ftriated, of a pale colour, 
firm, upright, and three feet high. 
The leaves are numerous upon them, and ftand 
irregularly, but not fo confufedly as on fome of 
the other fpecies: they are broad, oblong and 
without foorftalks. 
The flowers ftand ina kind of fpike at the top 
of the ftalk; and, they ufually hang all one way, 
as in the common foxglove : they are large and yel- 
Jow, and are of the thape of thofe of the com- 
mon kind: their colour is pale on the outfide 
and deep within, and is fometimes variegated, 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
Auguft. f 
C. Bauhine calls it Digitalis lutea magno flore. 
J. Bauhine Digitalis lutea Flore majore folio 
latiore. 
4. Perfoliate Foxglove, 
Digitalis perfoliata. 
The root is large and irregularly fhaped, and 
fends out many long and thick fibres. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and two 
feet and a half high, of a pale green, and {carce 
at all branched. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and the ftalk in a 
manner runs through them: they are large and 
long; broadeft at the bafe, and fimaller all the 
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way to the point: they are fmooth, perfeétly un- 
divided at the edges, and of a bright green. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk, and 
on long footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
upper leaves: they are large, and extreamnly beau- 
tiful: their colour is a deep violet purple: they 
are hollow and long, in the manner of the com- 
mon foxglove ; but they are divided into five hort 
and round fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and terminates in a 
point: the feeds are {mall and brown. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July, 
Morifon calls it Digitalis perfoliata lore violaceo, 
Linnzeus calls this Mimulus, making it another 
genus ; but that is a needlefs diftintion, 
5. Shrubby Foxglove. 
Digitalis frute[cens. 
The root fpreads under the furface, and fends 
up fhoots in various places, 
The ftalks are woody, and covered with a 
redifh brown bark, 
The leaves ftand irregularly and in confide- 
rable numbers upon thems and are very beau- 
tiful: they have no footftalks, but grow to the 
main ftalk by a broad, hollow bafe ; they are 
long, narrow, of a bright green, and beautifully 
indented on the edges : they are broadeft toward 
the middle, and terminate ih a fharp point. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
very long fpikes: they are of a beautiful gold 
yellow, and have two lips; and the four threads, 
with the buttons, very apparent in them, 
The feed-veffel is large and Oval; And the feeds 
are numerous, fmall, and brown, 
It is a native of the Canaries, and flowers in 
May. 
Cliffort calls it Gefiteria felis lanceolatis Ser- 
ratis pedunculo terminaci lake [picato:. Com melinej 
Digitalis. acanthoides canarienfis flore aureo fru- 
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GRATIOLA 
A Phe flower confifts of a fingle petal, 
the edge divided into four parts : 
back ; the others are equal: 
terminates in a point, 
‘Linnzus places this among his diandria monogynia; th 
and the filament from the rudiment of the feed-veffel be 
There is, however, 
clafs of the diandria is 
buttons on the top: thefe, therefore, 
treated of, to which it evidently belo 
contained in a fingle capfule, 
name, but etroneoufly ; for, though allied 
ment of the plants to which it is of kin, is 
* Stamina duo in flore hermaphrodito. 
approaching to the labiated thape : 
arts : the upper fegment is broader than the others, and turns 
the cup is divided into five feoments 
fome conftraint upon his fyftem in this inftance:: th 
»_ that there are only two ftamina jh the flower, 
fruit; * but in this plant there are really five fta 
longs; having a flower confifting of a fingle pe 
It is fo nearly allied to the foxglove that fome hav 
» itis a ditting genus. 
Hext to the foxglove, which it moft refembles, 
the tube is angulaced’: 
3 and the feed-vefel is oval, and 
ere’ being two fertile 
threads in the flower, 
ing fingle. 
¢ general charater of his 
nina with the rudiment of the 
mina in each flower: three of them have no 
he calls fteril, and accounts as nothing, 
Many have been puzzled to know where to place tk i 
We fee how Linnzeus difpofes it; he feparates it 
Ms plant. 
many claffes from the reft of the genera here 
tal, and the feeds 
€ called it by that 
Tts proper place, in’ an arrange- 
Sy. Nat. 
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