FOXGLOVE. 



Digitalis purpurea. 



T is proper that the fox 

 should be provided with a 

 glove, for, as a midnight 

 marauder, a muffled hand 

 may be of the first im- 

 portance in the prosecution 

 of his business. Opinions 

 differ as to the precise 

 meaning of the familiar 

 name of this, the noblest of 

 our British wildings ; the 

 botanical name Digitalis is 

 of German origin — that is 

 to say, a German botanist 

 fitted the plant with a 

 Latin name, because up to 

 his time, 1543, it had not 

 been recognised in either 

 Greek or Latin. Dr. Prior 

 is decisive about ''foxglove ;" 

 but for all that, those learned in the definition of names 

 have had much to say about it. Digitalis is from 

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