
230 PLANTS GROWING IN LIGHT SOIL. 
flowers have hardly the charm of the deeply-tinted enrolled 
buds which pique the interest with the expectancy of the 
blossom. Often we find the foxglove blooming in the woods 
when there is not another flower to be seen, and we therefore 
greet it with an added amount of pleasure. 
D. flava, or downy false foxglove, Plate CXVIII, is per- 
haps a little earlier in coming into bloom, It is a smaller 
plant, very showy, and with beautiful bell-shaped flowers, 
FERN-LEAF, OR LOUSEWORT FALSE FOXGLOVE. 
(Plate CX/X.) 
Dasjstoma Pedicularia, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Figwort. Pale yellow. Scentless. Maine southward. August, September. 
Flowers: large, in a terminal leafy panicle. Calyx: irregularly cut ; five- 
lobed ; pubescent. Corol/a : funnel-form; inflated ; with five slightly irregular 
lobes ; within woolly; pubescent. S¢amens: four in pairs, one pair shorter 
than the other; woolly. Avthers: lavender. stil: one. Leaves: pinnati- 
fid; the divisions much incised. Stem: branched; leafy. oot: parasitic. 
The blossoms from which the accompanying illustration was 
made were picked in North Carolina ; and there, as along the 
Atlantic coast, the fern-leaf foxglove is very lovely. There is 
a sensitiveness about the plant that makes us fancy it to be 
one of the timid spirits of nature. It resents being picked, 
and the leaves and stems then turn quickly black and die. 


