348 Scrophularinee— Buddlea. 
acutely acuminate, clothed with a dense silvery tomentum 
beneath, and somewhat rugose above, usually deciduous in our 
climate. The flowers are small, bright orange, arranged in 
small globular heads on long peduncles. Itisa native of Chili. 
2. B. Lindleyana.—A half-hardy shrub with angular 
glabrous branches, ovate shortly-petiolate serrate leaves, and 
terminal racemose spikes of 
purplish red hairy flowers. 
A native of China. 
B. crispa is a very dis- 
tinct species, from the Hi- 
malaya mountains, having 
very woolly ferruginous cor- 
date-lanceolate toothed or 
curled leaves and terminal 
spicate panicles of lilac and 
brown fragrant flowers, pro- 
duced in early Spring. 
Erinus alpinusisa pretty 
little herbaceous plant from 
the Alps and the Pyrenees, 
growing about 3 or + inches 
high. Leaves small, oblong, 
dentate, radical rosulate, 
Flowers racemose, reddish- 
purple. Corolla regular, 
funnel-shaped ; limb of 5 
toothed lobes. 
Wulfenia Carinthiaca is 
a dwarf herb with oblong 
petiolate doubly toothed 
leaves and bracteolate ra- 
cemes of pendent tubular 
blue flowers, appearing in 
Summer. 
18. DIGITALIS. 
Biennial or perennial 
herbs, rarely shrubby. 
Leaves simple, alternate, 
the lower ones tufted and 
petiolate. Flowers in long terminal bracteate racemes, Calyx 
Fig 192. Digitalis purpurea. (| nat. size.) 
