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Show FOXGLOVE. this flower. 591 at first they deThe flowerstalks vary in length ; , when they elepend like the flowers, afterwards become erect blackish seeds, exvate a two-celled capsule containing many style with its bifid posed to observation by having the long the calyx standing of stigma attached to it, and the segments open. HISTORY. over England in This most elegant plant is found common all hedges; flowers of sides the ntby reque dry sandy soils, also moref gent de Notre in July, and secds in August ; it is called in French ance. Dame, fromits corolla having a leathery subst MEDICAL USE. , anf Noplant has been more esteemed as a popular remedy , andstill its many till of late little attended to by the faculty reader will be, perpowerful virtues are yet unknown. The t in the Theatrum haps, surprised to find the following accoun when disBotanicum of old Parkinson, in chap. 1xxxii, p. 653, coursing on this plant :— VIRTUES. n rOx.e6LON: DIGITALIS. Class XIV. Didynamia. Order 1. Angiospermia. bell-shaped, five-cleft, Pssenr. Gen. Cuar. Calyx five-parted: Corolla bellied: Capsules ovate, tw o-celled. of the corolla Spec. Cuar. Leaves of the calyx ovate, acute: Segments obtuse: Upper Lip entire. vas DESCRIPTION. Leaves "Tas stalk is erect, tapering, rises four or five feet. lks, downy footsta winged short on veined, d, wrinkle large, oval, talks are small, underneath ; the bracteas attendant on the flowers spear-shaped, and sessile. The flowers always depend on one with little side; these are purple, bell-shaped, marked internally hairs de« long and rings, dark-coloured spots placed in whitish h approac ever insects no hence fend the entrance of the tube; them concerning “ The Italians havean usuall proverbe with a tutte piaghe Arald s, this herbe, called by them aralda, whichi familiarly to it use they for salda: Aralda salveth all sores: leaves being but heale any fresh or greene wound or cut, the use the juyce in they also mes someti and too, bruised and bound and heale them re, moystu their up dry them, old sores to clense quality the more speedily, which it performeth by the bitter , and therein, whereby it is found to be heating and drying rarefy a of neede is there clensing withall ; so that whensoever rs humou s viscou and flegme toughe ing or extenuating of thick hereof troubling the chest or stomacke, the decoction or juice clense to also as ble, availea is honey or sugar some with made up mes, and purge the body both upwards and downewards someti cobstru the open of tough flegme and clammy humours, and to that ing hstand notwit yet and tions of the liver and spleene; physithese qualities are found to bee in it, there are but few r manne a in is but uses, these to it put that tions in our times be to ence experi late by found beene hath it ted: wholly neglec applyed to ayaileable for the king’s evill, the herbe bruised and and used therethe place, or the juice made up into an ointment on: andit hath beene oflater experience found also to be eflec- |