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The B R I T I S H H E R B A L. 
It is a native of Spain and Italy, and fiuwers 
in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Digitalis major lulea five 
■pallida parvo fiore. 
3. Greac-flowered yellow Foxglove. 
Digilalis h'Jea mc.gno Jicre. 
The root is very large, and runs obliquely 
under the .lurface, lending up front various parts 
cluRers of leaves, and numerous ilalks. 
The leaves. that rife from the root are broad, 
oblong, and of a pale green, and a little dented 
at the edge. 
The Halks are round, flriated, of a pale colour, 
firm, upright, and three feet high. 
The leaves are numerous upon them, and (land 
irregularly, but not fo conkifedly as on fome ol 
the other fpecies ; they are broad, oblong and 
without footliaiks. 
The flowers (land In a kind of fpike at the top 
of the ftalki and they ufually hang all one way, 
as in the common foxglove : they are large and yel- 
low, and are of the fhape of thofe of the com- 
mon kind : their colour is pale on the outfide 
and deep wichin, and is fometimes variegated. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Digitalis hitca magna fiore. 
J. Bauhine Digitalis lutea fiore majors folio 
latiore. 
4. Perfoliate Foxglove. 
Digitalis perfoliata. 
The root is large and irregularly fhaped, and 
fends out many long and thick fibre§. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and, two 
feet and a half high, of a pale green, and fcarce 
at all branched. 
The leaves fland in pairs, an.d the ftalk in a 
manner runs through them : they are large, and 
long ; broadcft at the bafe, and fmaller all the 
way to the point; they are fmooth, perfeflly un- 
divided at the edges, and of a bright green. 
The flowers Hand at the top of the ftalk, and 
on long footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
upper leavts : they are large, and txtreamly beau- 
tiful : their colour is a deep violet purple ; they 
are hollow and long, in the manner of the com- 
mon fcxglo-ve i but tliey are divided into five fhort 
and round fegments at the edge. 
The feed-veflcl is oval, and terminates in a 
point ; the feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in July. 
Morifun calls it Digitalis perfoliata fiore violaceo. 
LinniEus calls this Mimulus, making it another 
genus ; but that is a needlefs diftindtion. 
5. Shrubby Foxglove, 
Digitalis frutefcens. 
The root fpreads under the furface, and fends 
up fhoots in various places. 
The. ftalks are woody, and covered with a 
redifli brown bark. 
The leaves ftand irregularly and in confide- 
rable numbers upon them; and are very beau- 
tiful; they have no footftalks, but grow to the 
main ftalk by a brojd, hollow bafe : they are 
long, narrow, of a bright green, and beautifully 
indented on the edges : they are broadeft toward 
the middle, and terminate in a fharp point. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
very long fpikes : they are of a beautiful gold 
yellow, and have two lips ; and the four threads, 
with the buttons, very apparent in them. 
The feed-veflel is large and oval; and the feeds 
are numerous, fmall, and brown. 
It is a native of the Canaries, and flowers in 
, May. 
Cliftort calls it Gefneria foliis Jajjceolatis fer- 
ralis pedunculo terminaci laxe fpicato. Commeline, 
Digitalis acanthoidcs canarienfis fibre aureo frU' 
-tefcens. - 
GENUS VIJI. 
H E D G E H y S S O p. 
G R A T I 0 L A. 
'V^f ''7";''"?";' °f ' ""S'-^ P^"'- approaching to the labiated Ihape : the tube is an»uUted : 
1 tlie edge d.v.ded mto four parts : the upper fegment is broader than the others, and turn, 
baeic; the others are equal: the cup is divided into five fcgments ; and the feed-veffel is oval, and 
terminates m a point. 
Linnxus places this among his there being two fertile threads in the flower 
and the filament from the rudiment of the fecd-vefTel bcino- finglc ' 
There is, however, fome conftr,,int upon his fyftem in°his inftance : the general charaaer of his 
clafs of he dm.ina .s that there are only two (lamina, in the flower, with the rudiment of the 
frutti ' but tn th,s plant there are really five ftamina in each flower: three of them have no 
buttons on the top : tliefe, therefore, he calls flieril, and account, as nothin" 
iVIany have been puzzled to know where to place this plant °' 
We fcehowLinnffiusdi^fpofesit; he feparates it many elafl-es from the red of the genera here 
treated of, to which .t evidently belongs ; having a flower confiding of a finglc petal, and the feeds 
contained in a fingle capfule. It is fo nearly allied to the foxglove that lome have called it by that 
name, but erroneoufly , for, though allied, it is a diftinfl genus. Its proper place, in an arrange- 
ment of the plants to which it is of kin, is next to the foxglove, which it moft refcmbles. 
St.imin?. duo in flore ht 
rmaphrodito. S_yji. Nat. 
DIVISION 
