DIGITA LIS AMBIG'UA. 
AMBIfiUOUS FOXGLOVE. 
Class. Order 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHULAIUACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Switzerland. 
2 feet. 
August 
Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No. 790. 
Digitalis, from the Latin, in allusion to the 
finger-shape of the flowers. (See No. 94.) Park- 
inson, in his ‘ Paradisus Terrestris,’ or, as he calls 
it, a ‘ Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers, which 
our English air will permit to be nursed up,’ pub- 
lished in 1629, says of the Digitalis, “We call them, 
generally, in English, Foxglove; but some, as 
thinking it too foolish a name, do call them Finger- 
flowers, because they are like unto the fingers of a 
glove, the ends cut off.” 
A plant, called intermedia, and represented as 
being of character between this and lutea (No. 94,) 
bears much resemblance to the one before us, in- 
deed we doubt whether they are not identical, 
differing only in pubescence and such circumstances 
as may arise from cultivation. Neither the one or 
the other is frequently met with, although very 
ornamental plants, and of easy cultivation. 
Digitalis ambiguais a handsome border plant; and 
in Germany, is said to inhabit mountainous situa- 
tions, just as the species pupurea does in England. 
It may be propagated by division of the roots, 
or by seeds, which it freely produces. 
Don’s Syst, Bot. 4, 505. 
