126 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
In waste places and hedges. Rare, and very doubtfully native. 
It has occurred in numerous counties both in England and Scot- 
land, but apparently never under circumstances which do not lead 
to a suspicion of its adventitious origin. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring and Summer. 
Stem stout, 18 inches to 3 feet high, with 4 raised lines, but no 
wings. Leaves nearly as broad as long, l 1 to 1\ inches in length, 
sometimes so deeply divided as to be almost lobed. Corolla f inch 
long, pale-yellow, with very short nearly equal lobes, the two 
longer stamens and style slightly exserted. Capsule about the size 
of a peppercorn, more conical than in the other species. Plant 
pale yellowish-green, the leaves very thin and flaccid. 
Yellow Figicort. 
French, Scrophulaire Printaniere. German, Friihlings Braunwurz. 
Tribe III.— DIGITALEiE. 
Corolla tubular, not spurred or saccate at the base, scarcely 
bilabiate ; upper lip covered by the under one in bud. Stamens 4, 
didynamous. Inflorescence simple, indefinite. Leaves all alternate. 
GENUS III— J) IGITALIS. Tournef. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla tubular or campanulate, ventricose on 
the under side, abruptly contracted at the base ; limb very short, 
sub-erect, oblique, but scarcely bilabiate ; the upper lip entire or 
notched, the lower one 3-lobcd. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. 
Anthers 2-cclled. Capsule conical, 2-cellcd, septicidally 2-valved, 
the upper valve also splitting loculicidally. Seeds very numerous, 
minute. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs, with alternate leaves and large 
purple, yellow, white, or lurid horizontal or drooping flowers 
in a simple raceme. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the Latin word digitus, a finger, 
from the resemblance of the flowers of the species to the fingers of gloves. It was so 
named by Fuchs, a German botanist, possibly from digituhutum, a sort of finger-glove 
or cap, used in gathering olives. It may be that the name Fuchs glove was corrupted 
into Foxglove, the common name of the species ; but it is more probable that it comes 
from Folks-glove, as mentioned under the D. purpurea. 
