botanically arranged. 465 



The plant has a rank smell and bitter taste. It is said, that 

 swine that have the scab are cured by washing them with a de- 

 coction of the leaves. 



DIGITATIS. Linn. Gen. Plant. 676. 



Digiiatis calycinis foliolis ovatis acutis, corollis obtuds : labio 

 superiore integro. Syst. Nat. 



FOX-GLOVE. Hornwort. Blossoms red. In moist land. Aug. 



This is another plant which has been mistaken for Paul's Be- 

 tony, a. species of the Veronica. 



BIGNONIA. Linn. Gen. Plant. 677. 



TRUMPET-FLOWER. Yellow Jasmine. Stems round ; erect. 

 Leaves lanceolate ; opposite ; irregularly serrated. Blossoms 

 solitary ; on short flower-stalks rising from the axillce of the 

 leaves ; yellow. On the borders of fields, and in open woods. 

 July. 



This plant has also been called Paul's Betony. 



WOOD BETONY. The calix a perianthium of one leaf; tu- 

 bular. Border entire ; sloped. Corolla one petal ; gaping. 

 Tube twice the length of the calix. Upper lip helmet-shaped, 

 with two awns. Lower lip reflected ; three concave segments, 

 the middle one smaller. Stamina four filiform filaments, (two 

 a little shorter than the other two) concealed by the upper lip. 

 Antherce cloven. Germen ovate ; compressed. Stile filiform ; 

 longer than the stamina. Stigma obtuse. Capsule ovate ; acumi- 

 nated ; compressed ; with two cells and two valves. Seeds 

 ovate ; several. 



Stems erect. Leaves lanceolate ; deeply divided in a pinna- 

 ted form ; the divisions serrated. Blossoms in spikes ; yellow. 

 Common in rich wood land. June. 



L 1 1 MIMULUS. 



