180 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Digit41is. 



above; paler beneath. Fl. -stalks axillary, terminal, forked, 

 each with a pair of spear-shaped hract. ; all together forming a 

 compound, upright panicle. Cor. dull-green, with a livid, pur- 

 ple lip. Blossom-tube filled at the base with a honey-like liquor, 

 whence the delight of wasps : as also Scr. aquatica. 

 An ointment with the root, formerly used in piles, and scrophula. 

 Scabby swine washed with a decoction of the Is. Infusion of the 

 plant sudorific. Plant hung about the neck, or carried about one, 

 supposed to keep a man in health, as, according to Old Gerarde's 

 remark, " divers do rashly teach." G. E. 



Bruised plant fetid, like elder. The knotty form of the root 

 might suggest the notion of its use in glandular, and scrophulous 

 swellings, agreeably to the doctrine of Signatures. See Saxiiraga 

 granulata. 



jS. Paler-flowered variety of Bobart, at Cumnor, near Oxford. 



S. aquatica, IVater F. Water Betony. Leaves 

 heart- egg-shaped, bluntish, on foot-stalks running down 

 the stem. Stem winged. Root fibrous. E. B. 854. 

 C. 5. 44. Betonica aquatica. G. E. 715. 



Watery places,, margins of pools, and rivers, wet meadows. 



Per. July. 



Stem upright, nearly simple, three or four f., square, smooth, leafy, 

 Ls. opposite, stalked, egg-oblong, heart-shaped at the base, saw- 

 toothed. Fl. in small, forked panicles, oppositely compounded 

 into a long, leafless, bracteated bunch. Cor. tube greenish, in- 

 flated, its larger lip, dark, dull blood-colour. 

 Planted with advantage near bee-hives. Bruised herb fetid : in 



poultice for scrophulous, and cancerous sores. A beautiful plant 



when variegated. C 



DIGITALIS.' Fox-glove.' 



ly. purpurea. Purple F. Segments of the calyx egg- 

 shaped, acute. Corolla blunt ; its upper lobe scarcely 

 cloven. Leaves downy. E. B. 1297- C. 1. 48. 

 G. E 790. 



Pastures, hedges, hanks, on gravel, or sand. Sm. * Stokenchurch. 

 Between Nettlebed and Henley. Sb. Copse just above Childs- 

 well Farm. Bx. Mixbury. Mr. Roundell Palmer, Trin. 

 Coll. Oxford. 



Bien. .Tuly. 



Stem upright, wand-like, leafy, three or four f Ls. alternate, egg- 

 shaped, or elliptic- oblong, notched, rugged, veiny, root-ones 

 largest. L. -stalks half embracing the stem. Spike teripinal, 



1 From its resemblance to a thimble. Beckman. 



2 From the name of a German botanist, &c. or from the Anglo-Saxon, 

 foxes-glofe. See Benson's Anglo-Saxon Vocabularium. 



