DIGITALIS HY'BRIDA. 
campbell’s hybrid foxglove. 
Class. Order. 
DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA . 
Natural Order. 
SCROPHCLARINiE. 
Hybrid of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Originated 
England. 
3 feet. 
June, July, 
Perennial. 
in 1825. 
No. 468. 
In the similarity which the flowers of this genus 
bear to the finger of a glove, has originated the 
name Digitalis, and its application to these plants; 
the root of the word being the Latin digitale. 
The origin of the Digitalis, which we now intro- 
duce, has been a subject of considerable interest to 
physiologists. Botanists have not agreed in opin- 
ion on the subject of hybrid plants — whether such 
productions will be permanently established amongst 
the vegetables of the earth, or whether they will be 
lost to future generations, unless propagated again, 
as at first, from their parent species. Difference of 
opinion also exists regarding the species and genera 
between which varieties can be raised. The plant 
now before us, has been propagated between the 
Digitalis ambigua, and Gloxinia speciosa, by 
Mr. Alexander Campbell, curator of the Manchester 
Botanical and Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
We cannot give our readers any information so 
satisfactory as that with which Mr. Campbell himself, 
has furnished us. He says, “ The close resemblance 
which the flowers of Digitalis bear to those of 
Gloxinia, suggested the idea that a cross between 
