. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIGITALIS DIMORPHOTHECA 485 BBB. Fls. purplish. TMpsi, Linn. Plant much like D. purpurea. Peren- nial, 2-4 ft. high: Ivs. oblong, rugose, decurrent: fls. purple, throat paler, marked with red dots. June-Sept. Spain. AA. Middle loie of the lower Up shorter or hardly longer than the others. B. Fls. yellowish. amb
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIGITALIS DIMORPHOTHECA 485 BBB. Fls. purplish. TMpsi, Linn. Plant much like D. purpurea. Peren- nial, 2-4 ft. high: Ivs. oblong, rugose, decurrent: fls. purple, throat paler, marked with red dots. June-Sept. Spain. AA. Middle loie of the lower Up shorter or hardly longer than the others. B. Fls. yellowish. ambigna, Murr. {D. grandifldra. Lam. D. ochro- Uuea, Ja,cq.). Perennial, 2-3 ft. high: Ivs. ovate- lanceolate, toothed, sessile, downy below: fls. large, 2 in. long, yellowish, marked with brown; lower bracts about as long as the fls. Eu., W. Asia. 1:64. BE. Fls. wliite to purple, seldom yellowish. purpiirea, Linn. {B. tomentbsa, Link. & Hoffmgg.). Common Foxglove. The species most commonly cultivated. Mostly biennial, but some- times perennial. Height 2-3 ft.: Ivs. rugose, some- what downy : fls. large, 2 in. long, ranging from purple to white and more or less spotted, rather obscurely lobed. Gn. 34: 676. Var. gloxiniBefldra, Hort. (D. gloxinioldes, Carr. Z>. gloxinimflbra, Hort.). Figs. 711, 712. Of more robust habit, longer racemes, larger fls., which open wider, nearly always strongly spotted, though a sub- variety, gloxinicefldra dlha, is offered. V. alba and punctata of the seed trade are presumably white and spotted varieties. X>. alba, Sahr&iik ='D. pur- purea. D. lacini&ta, Lindl. Perennial, 2 ft. high: Ivs. lanceolate, jagged: , downy, with ovate,bearded segments; bracts much shorter than the pedicels. Spain. :1201.— ffdfa, Waldst. & Kit. Perennial, 2-3 ft. high: Ivs. linear-lanceo- late, radical ones obovate-lanceolate: fls. scattered, glabrous, yellow. Danube and Greece.— D. Mariana, Boiss. Lvs. radical, very down
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