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Fox Frops. A West Somerset name for the 
Foxglove Digitalis purpurea. 
Fox’s BrusH. A _ correspondent at South 
Petherton gives this as a local name for the 
Valeian but does not indi¢>te the species. Mr. 
T. W. Cowan tells me it is Kentranthus ruber. 
Fox’s Moura. A correspondent at Ilminster 
gives this as a local name for the Monk’s-hood, 
Aconitum Napells. 
Fox StTonses. Correspondents at Chewton 
Mendip and Wimborne give this as a name for 
the Orchis, but do not indicate the species. See 
Doge STONES. 
Fox Tams. (1) A correspondent at Thurlbear 
gives me this as a local name for tke catkins of 
the Hazel, Corylus Avellana. 
(2) In: .W. Wilts tre name is given to tbe 
eatkin. of the Willow, Saliz. 
(3) A correspoadent at Evershot gives it as 
a local name for the Chickweed, Stellaria media. 
Fox Wort. A Martock schovl boy gives me 
this as a loc. name for the Lesser Celandine, 
Ranunculus Ficaria, 
FRAMBOISE, or FRAMBOYS. Mr. J. C. Man- 
sell Pleydeli gives this as a Dorset name 
for the Raspberry, R bus ideuvs, and quotes 
““My Lord of Salisbury toldme that in Cran- 
borne Chase there grew raspes commonly, and 
in great plenty, aid that the country pecple 
called them framboises, vt ich is the Frerch wird 
ferthem.” (Written about 1638, and quoted in 
Notes and Queries Ser. iv., vol. 1, p. 532). 
FRECKLED FAacE, A correspondent at Dowlish 
Wake gives m2 this as a local name for the 
Cowslip, Primula veris. 
FRrRENcH. A correspondent at Weliow gives me 
this as a local name for the Srinfoin, Onobrychis 
viciefolia. See FRENCH GRaAss. (1). 
FrRENcH BEANS. Mr. Elworthy says: “ Ap- 
plied by cxttagers to the dwarf varieties only. 
The climbing runners are always Kidney Beers, 
fr mthe2e lor amd sh pr? »f th»: seed.” Dr. 
Watson writes ‘‘So far as my experience goes 
applied indiscriminately to any Kidney Bean. 
In some parts where Kidney Beans or Scarlet 
Runners are grown the former is used 
when grown for the kitchen, the latter when 
grown as a flower. I do not think this dis- 
crimination applies to the South of England at 
all, but only to districts where the climate is 
not usually suitable for growing Kidney Beans 
for eating.” 
FRENCH GOAT’s BEARD. A correspondent at 
Stockland (Devon) give: mo this as a local name 
for the Hawkweed, Hieraci um. 
