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to the shrubbery with fine effect, as its tall, spire-like 
spikes, crowned with its large thimble or bell-shaped pur- 
ple or white flowers, will finely contrast with the green 
foliage of the shrubs. 
D. ferruginea, or Iron-colored Foxglove; a hardy per- 
ennial, with brown flowers, from July to August; four 
feet high. 
D. Ititea, or Small Yellow Foxglove; a hardy peren- 
nial, with light yellow flowers, from July to August; 
two feet high. 
D. ochroletica.—Great Yellow Foxglove.—A hardy 
perennial, with large light yellow flowers, from July to 
August; four feet high. 
D. landta.— Woolly-flowered Foxglove, with white and 
brown flowers, from July to August; two feet high. All 
the species are poisonous when taken into the system, and 
the leaves are used medicinally. 
“Tt is a pity this plant is poisonous, for it is extremely 
beautiful, particularly those kinds which are of a deep- 
rose color. They are all speckled within the bell, which 
adds still more to their richness. Mrs. C. Smith invites 
the bee to 
“ Explore the Foxglove’s freckled bell.” 
Brown uses a similar epithet when he describes Pan as 
seeking gloves for his mistress, a curious conceit: 
“To keep her slender fingers from the sunne, 
Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath runne, 
To plucke the speckled Fox-Gloves from their stem 
And on those fingers neatly placed thein.” 
“The bee appears regardless of its poisonous qualities: 
Se Bees that soar for bloom . 
High as the highest peak of Furnace Fells, 
Will murmur by the hour in Fox-Glove bells."— Wadsworth's Sonnet. 
“The Fox-Glove, in whose drooping bells the bee 
Makes her sweet music.”—B, Cornwall. 
“ Let me thy vigils keep 
»Mongst boughs pavilioned, where the deer’s swift leap 
Startles the wild bee from the Fox-Glove bell.”— Keats. 
