Sibthorpia. | LVI. SCROPHULARINE. 333 
with a small stock, and very slender creeping stems rooting at the nodes. 
Leaves small, on ‘slender stalks, orbicular, deeply cordate at the base, crenate, 
and hairy. Flowers very minute, on short, axillary stalks. Calyx with 
4, narrow segments. Corolla scarcely longer, the 2 upper lobes yellowish, 
the 3 lower broader and pink. 
In moist, shady places, along the western coasts of Europe, penetrating 
eastward toa very few stations round ‘the Mediterranean, and extending 
northwards to the Channel Islands, southern Ireland, South Wales, and 
the south-west of England. £1. summer. 
VIII. DIGITALIS. FOXGLOVE. 
Biennials or perennials, with stout, erect, usually simple stems, alternate 
leaves, and showy flowers, in long, terminal, one-sided, simple racemes. 
Calyx of 5 unequal sepals or segments, Corolla tubular, contracted above 
the base, then much inflated, with the limb shortly 4- or 5-lobed; the 
lateral lobes outside the upper one in the bud, and the lowest usually the 
longest. Stamens 4. Capsule pointed, opening at the partition in 2 valves, 
with numerous small seeds. 
A European and North Asiatic genus, of which several species besides 
our own are occasionally cultivated in flower-gardens, especially the yellow 
D., grandiflora, 
1. D. purpurea, Linn. (fig. 747). Purple Foxglove.—Root usually 
biennial, but will sometimes form a stock, which will flower a second or 
even athird time. Radical leaves on long stalks, ovate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, 6 inches long or more, coarsely veined and downy. Flowering stems 
2 to 3 or even 4 feet high, with a few alternate shortly-stalked leaves in 
the lower part, the upper part occupied by a long stately raceme of purple 
flowers, each 14 inch long. Four of the calyx-segments broad and leafy, 
the fifth upper one much narrower and more pointed. Corolla beautifully 
spotted inside, with 4 short lobes, the lowest about twice the length of the 
others and hairy inside. 
On dry, hilly wastes, and roadsides, in many parts of western and central 
~ Europe, extending northwards into Scandinavia, but almost unknown in 
limestone districts. Abundant in many parts of Britain. FV. spring and 
summer. 
IX. VERONICA. VERONICA. 
Herbs (or shrubs in a few exotic species), with opposite stem-leaves, and 
small flowers, usually blue or white, sometimes arranged in spikes or ra- 
cemes, or in the axils of alternate floral leaves. Calyx 4- or 5-cleft. Corolla 
with a very short tube, the limb rotate, deeply 4-cleft, the lower segment 
the narrowest. Stamens 2. Capsule more or less flattened ASN: (at 
right-angles to the partition), and opening round the edges in 2 valves. 
Seeds few. 
A numerous genus in the northern hemisphere, with a few species spread- 
ing into the tropics and far into the southern hemisphere, whilst others 
are peculiar to Australia and New Zealand. Among the latter the V. speciosa, 
salicifolia, Lindleyana, and other shrubby or half-shr ubby ones, are much 
cultivated in our gardens. Several species of the genus appear occasionally 
