¶ The Description.
1 FOx-gloue with the purple floure is most common; the leaues whereof are long, nicked in the edges, of a light greene, in manner like those of Mullein, but lesser, and not so downie: the stalke is straight, from the middle whereof to the top stand the floures, set in a course one by another vpon one side of the stalke, hanging downwards with the bottome vpward, in forme long, like almost to finger stalks, whereof it tooke his name Digitalis, of a red purple colour, with certaine white spots dasht within the floure; after which come vp round heads, in which lies the seed, somewhat browne, and as small as that of Time. The roots are many slender strings.
2 The Fox-gloue with white floures differs not from the precedent but in the colour of the floures; for as the others were purple, these contrariwise are of a milke-white colour.
3 We haue in our gardens another sort hereof, which bringeth forth most pleasant yellow floures and somewhat lesse than the common kinde, wherein they differ. ‡ This also differs from the common kind in that the leaues are much smoother, narrower, and greener, hauing the nerues or vrines running alongst it, neither are the nerues snipt, nor sinuated on their edges. ‡
4 We haue also another sort, which we call Digitalis ferruginea, whose floures are of the co∣lour of rusty iron; whereof it tooke his name, and likewise maketh the difference. ‡ Of this sort there is a bigger and a lesser; the bigger hath the lower leaues some foot long, of a darke green colour, with veines running along them; the stalks are some yard and halfe high: the floures large;