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For the ‘Third Week in OCTOBER 
“FLORA 
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a _ The Flowers, tho’ fingular in their Form, 
f  getain fo much of the Fox- Glove Character, that 
- potwithitanding the Difference in their Opening, 
and the Diverfity of their Manner of Growth, moft 
_ Authors who have nam’d the Plant have refer’d it 
to that Genus. 
 Pruxener calls it Digitali afinis: and Com- 
mMELINE, Digitalis Acanthoides, led to this by the 
peculiar Shape of the Flower, fomewhat re- 
fembling that of the eo defcrib’d in our 
| Fourth Number. 
- The Gardeners call it Matera, its Indian Name. 
Sie when he publith’d the C/iffort Garden, 
sank’d it with the Ge/neria ; but, upon more Exa- 
mination, he ranges it in his Species Plantarum 
the-others, Digitals calycinis folios lanceolatis co- 
rollis bilibiatis acutis caule fruticofo : Shrubby Fox- 
_ Glove, with the little Leaves at the Cup lanceo- 
- Tated ; and with the Flowers bilabiated and acute. 
Our Defcription of the Plant will make thefe 
Perms of Linn zvs familiar, and better fupply 
1¢ Place of a dry Explanation. 
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Flowers and Curious Plants now in their Perfection: 
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A sPlace in the ColleGtions of the Curious: 
e Pp. VIII. 4*: © not only the Flowers and Leaves have their 
te Fig. 1. Beauty, but the very Stem and Branches. | 
with the Digitalis; and calls it, in Diftinction from -| 
Style. 
I. GO LDEN FOX-GL Howse = 
T he Plant i is two Fe oot Sates we Root is brown, Oéob, 
divided and fpreading; and the main Stem is 
purplith. This is of a woody Hardnefs, and fends 
out, with good Culture, | feveral Branches. | They 
have a red Bark, but obfcur’d by a white Cottony 
Matter that hangs loofely over them, , 
The Leaves are numerous, and have no Foot- 
ftalks. They are long, tharp- pointed, ferrated, 
and of a frefh green Colour, which a light Hairy- 
nefs renders greyith and filvery. 
The Flowers are large, and plac’d in long and 
crowded Spikes : they are fo divided as to mimick 
the labiated Form; and their Colour is a bright 
and pure gold yellow. 2 
Each Flower has its feparate Cup, and that is 
divided into five Segments, of which the uppermost 
ftands feparate from the others; and is narrower 
and more pointed. In the Middle of the Flower 
are plac’d four Filaments, of which two are longer 
than the others, and in their Centre ftands a fingle 
The Flower falling, there appears an oval - 
_ Seed-veffel, in which, when ripe, are contain’ 
many {mall Seeds in two Cells. 
We have before acquainted the Student with 
the Fourteenth-Clafs in the Linnaan Syftem : 
it comprehends thofe Plants in whofe Flower there 
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