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DIGITALIS* lacinidta. 
Cut-leaved Foxglove. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. ScROPHULARINER, 
DIGITALIS. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 48. 
D. laciniata ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis laciniatis glabris, racemo subse- 
cundo, corollis pubescentibus: laciniis*ovatis barbatis, bracteis omnibus 
pedicellis multo brevioribus. 
Caulis herbaceus, erectus, ramosus, glaber. Folia laciniata, acuminata, 
glabra, superioribus apice et basi integerrimis. Racemi numerosi, subse- 
cundi, glabri, foliis multd evectiores. Bracteee ovate, pedicellis multd 
breviores. Calyx patens, corollé multd brevior, sepalis ovatis. Corolla 
lutea, pubescens, infundibularis, tubo limbo multd longiore, labiis barbatis, 
superiore bifido, infertorts loho medio ovato, acuto. Stamina tubi longitudine. 
Specimens of this new species of Foxglove were com- 
municated to us by Messrs. Young, from their Nursery at 
Epsom, in July last. It had been raised from seeds col- 
lected upon the mountains about Malaga, by Mr. Philip 
Barker Webb. It is unquestionably a new species, dif- 
fering from D. lutea, to which it is most nearly related, in 
its cut leaves, and short bractez. 
A hardy perennial, increased by division of the roots, 
and flowering in June and July. 
Stem erect, branched, smooth. Leaves jagged, acumi- 
nate, smooth, the uppermost entire at the point and base. 
Racemes numerous, somewhat one-sided, smooth, much 
* So called from the fancied resemblance of the flower to a thimble, 
digitabulum. The Germans call the Foxglove Fingerhut, which is the 
same thing. 
