DIGITALIS

a plant of which the common foxglove is a variety, native chiefly of southern Europe, but universally grown as an ornamental plant in gardens. It has large, purple, bell shaped flowers. The leaves, which are plucked during the second year of growth, are much valued in medicine as a heart stimulant, though in unregulated doses it is a strong narcotic poison. On account of its varying effects on different persons it has to be used with extreme caution.