236 SCROPHULARIACE.E. 



On the limestone beds the Digitalis is rare or cabsent, but these are of 

 too hmited an extent to prevent ' area general ' from broadly expressing 

 its distribution in the six Districts. On the granite it is very frequent 

 indeed, often adorning hillsides on Dartmoor. The white-flowered variety 

 is rare : I have seen it at Common Wood and Derriford (District iv. ) ; a 

 flesh-coloured or pinkish one near Clapper Bridge and on Roborough 

 Down. I gathered at Common \yood, in 1857, a curious monstrosity, in 

 which some of the pistils were converted into stems with numerous bracts. 



The ' flapping ' or ' popping ' of the flowers by children has originated 

 the common local name, ' Flapdock ' or ' Flappadock.' In a vocabulary of 

 Devonshire words in Cooke's Devon we find the interesting one of ' Cow- 

 slop' (see P)-ior. Pop. Names Brit. Plants, ed. 2, 54), but this I have 

 never heard about Plymouth. Humble Bees frequent the flowers of this 

 species, and I know of a prosy preacher havmg been compared by a rustic 

 of the neighbourhood of Plymouth to a ' Drumble Drane ' (Humble Bee) 

 on a ' Flappadock.' 



ANTIRRHINUM, Tournef. 



478. A. majus, L. Common Snapdragon. 



Alien ; on old vralls about houses, and rarely in waste spots. 

 Rather common. June to September, or later, 

 c. I. Burraton Combe, St. Stephens. 



II. Torpoint; Keys, Fl. iii. 133. Garden- wall between ]Millbrook 

 and Kingsand. Saltash. 

 D. III. Stoke Damerel. 



IV. [Cattedown Quarries, near Plymouth ; Jacob, Fl. part 4. At 

 Cattedown Quarries it has perfectly established itself on the 

 rock, and has assumed the unostentatious tint of the primitive 

 type, a pale red, or almost white ; Bromfield, Fl. Vect. 345, 

 note. I never remember seeing it there; Keys, FL iii. 133.] 

 Walls at Tothill, and elsewhere about Plymouth. Laira. 

 Plympton. Ridgway. Four plants in a waste bushy place near 

 Hay farm-house, 1874. 

 y. Garden-wall, Bridgend. Wall in Brixton village. 

 VI. On a wall near the church at Modbury. 

 Well established on walls only. 



479. A. Orontium, L. Corn Snapdragon. 



Colonist ; in dry corn-fields, and among other crops ; sometimes 

 in waste spots about arable land. Rare. July to September. 

 c. I. Many plants on the Cornwall Railway below Wivelscombe, St. 

 Stephens, Avith Linaria minor, August, 1878. One close to 

 Heskyn Mill, July, 1875. One in a waste spot near Notter 

 farm-house, August, 1874 ; again one, and several in a neigh- 

 bourmg barley arish, September, 1875. 



