DID YN AMI A. ANGIOSPERMIA. Digitalis. 739 
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( Plant strong smelling. E.) Stem smooth, quadrangular, three or four feet 
high. Leaves heart-egg-shaped, scolloped, (veiny. E.) Panicle naked, 
branched; the lower branches opposite, the upper alternate, forked. 
Floral-leaves awl-shaped, a pair at the base of each branch. Woodw. 
Upper-leaves egg-shaped. Flowers dingy red, (tube greenish. E.) 
Water Betony or Figwort. (Welsh; Gorneth y dwr. E.) Watery 
places, and banks of rivers. P. July—Sept.'* 
S. verna'lis. Leaves heart-shaped, (pubescent: E.) those of the 
stem ternate: fruit-stalks axillary, solitary, forked, leafy: (blos¬ 
som without an inner lobe. E.) 
(Hook. FI Lond. 70—E. Hot 567. E .)—Fl. Dan. 411— Riv. Mon. 107. 2, 
Scrophularia flore lut. — Barr. 273' — Clus. ii. 38. 1 — Ger.Em. 717 — Park . 
608. 4 — C. B. Pr . 112. 
(Herb pubescent. Blossom egg-shaped, yellow, the fine clefts nearly equal, 
mouth contracted. E.) Leaves doubly serrated. Fruit-stalks, primary 
ones longer than the leaves, the secondary short. Floral-leaves spear- 
shaped, a pair at the base of the secondary fruit-stalks. Woodw. ( Stem 
quadrangular, sometimes pentagonal, hollow, one to two feet high. E.) 
Yellow Figwort. Watery places and hedges. Near Mitcham, Surry. 
Hudson. Gloddaeth, Carnarvonshire. Fornham, near Bury. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. (About Newburgh, near Coxwould, Yorkshire. Rev. Archdeacon 
Pierson. FI. Brit. About Llanforda, the seat of Sir W. W. Wynne. 
Merionethshire. Bingley. Moist hedges by the road-side between Samp- 
ford and Hempsted, plentifully. Mr. E. Forster, jtin. Bot. Guide. By 
the side of the iron rail-way from Merton to Wandsworth. Mr. Graves. 
In great abundance on a bank near Cley, Norfolk. Hooker. Old walls 
near Hatton. Maughan. Grev. Edin. E.) B. April—April.f 
DIGITA'LIS.J Cal. with five divisions ; Bloss. bell-shaped : 
five-cleft, gibbous beneath: Caps, egg-shaped, two- 
celled, many-seeded. 
D. purpu'rea. Segments of the calyx egg-shaped, acute: blossom 
obtuse, upper lip nearly entire. 
(Lindley 2. E.)— Riv. Mon. 104 , Digitalis — Curt. — (E. Bot. 1297. E.)—- 
Woodv. 24 — FI. Dan. 74 — Tourn. 73. A. E. L. M. — -Fuchs. 893 —Trag 
889 — J. B. ii. 812. 3 — Lonic. i. 74. 1— Blackw. 16 — Dod. 169- — Lob. Ohs «• 
308. 2. Ic. i. 572. l—Ger. Em. 790. I—Park. 653. l—Ger. 646. I—Lob* 
Ic. l. 572. 2— H. Ox. v. 8, row 1. 1 — Swert. 6. 1 and 2. 
(Stem upright, rod-like, three or four feet high, pubescent, leafy, nearly 
cylindrical. Capsules acuminate. Leaves large, rugose, reticulated with 
prominent veins underneath, scolloped; teeth small, deep. Leafstalks 
half embracing the stem. Floral-leaves spear-shaped, purplish towards; 
the point. Flowers in long terminal spikes, unilateral, pendulous. Bios-* 
* (This plant should probably rank among the vegetable poisons. It is said to be 
decidedly narcotic; but the qualities seem to vary, perhaps according to its growth in, 
watery or drier situations. E.) 
f The different species of Scrophularia afford nourishment to Phalcena Verbasci , Cur* 
cidio and Tenthredo Scrophularice. 
$ (From digitus, a finger $ its dower resembling the finger of a glove, (and hence some* 
times calje,d Finger-flower ); so named by Fuchsius, after its German designation, E.) 
