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DIGITALIS, 
Tab. 1. 
Digitalis Fuchs. Hist. 892. Campanula Tragus Kreut. lib. 2. c. 125. Virga regia 
CiESALP. pl. 348. Digitalis Tourn. Inst. 165. Linn. Gen. 758. G^rt. Carp. 1. 247* 
t. 53. Gesneriae sp. Linn. Hort. Cliff. 318. 
CHARACTER DIFFERENTIALIS. 
Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla infundibularis 2-labiata. Antherae nudae biloculares; loculis 
parallelis. Discus 0. Stigma 2-lamellatum. 
CHARACTER NATURALIS. 
He RB.E V. SuFERUTICES. 
Radix biennis, vel perennis, fibrosa. 
Caulis erectus, foliosus, hirsutus, raro impubis, teres v. paulo angulatus, simplex 
ramosusve. 
Folia nunc mollia, rugosa, nunc laevia, nervosa, magis minhsve hirsuta, raro glaber¬ 
rima, biformia : radicalia humi diffusa, saepissime dentata; caulina lanceolata v. oblonga, 
petiolata, (tfim saepe decurrentia,) v. semiamplexicaulia; sensim in bracteis mutata. 
Flores cernui, racemosi, raro spicati, albi, purpurei, v. lutei. 
Racemi pauciflori v. coarctati, nunc secundi, nunc quaquaversi, bracteati, rarissime 
comosi. 
Bractea lineares, aut lanceolatae, inferiores saepiis floribus longiores, superiores sen¬ 
sim abbreviatae. 
Calyx 5-sepalus, campanulatus; sepala aestivatione tria exteriora valvatim super 
duobus lateralibus conniventia, late v. anguste ovata, nunc rotundata, tum margine mem¬ 
branaceo ; inaequalia, inferioribus sensim majoribus, nunc tubum corollae fere aequanti¬ 
bus ; super fructum conniventia. 
Corolla infundibularis, bilabiata, nuda, vel hirsuta; tubo supra basin constricto 
apicem versus ventricoso, v. cum basi subcontinuo, concolore aut venis fulvis reticulato; 
fauce raro nuda, saepius punctati, raro ocellati; limbo 4-lobo : laciniis nunc acutis, nunc 
rotundatis, rarissime obsoletis; superiore emarginativ. bifidi, rarissimi dente interme¬ 
dii; v. subintegri; lateralibus superiori semper conformibus; inferiore (labio) majore, 
nunc caeteris conformi, nunc producti, semel lunati, unguiculati, aestivatione in lacinias 
caeteras incumbente; v. in Isoplexide, accumbente. 
