80 FLOWERS OF THE WOODS AND COPSES 
out. When the corolla drops the stigma is smeared with pollen. 
Even in dull weather the flowers are-pollinated. The Hymenoptera, 
Bombus, Andrena, Halictus, Coleoptera, Meligethes, Antherophagus, 
Dasytes visit it. The flower is self-fertile. The flower lasts six days. 
The capsule opens when ripe, the fruit splitting along the partition, 
and the seeds fall out automatically or by contraction of their inner 
layer of cells. 
The Foxglove is a sand-loving plant, growing on sand soil, or a 
rock-lover, growing on a variety of rock soil, such as granite or slate. 
Two beetles, Axtherophagus nigricornis, Apteropoda graminis, 
three moths, Aedz¢ttes artemis, Small Angle-shades (Luplexia lucipara), 
Sword-grass (Calocampa exoleta), and a Heteropterous insect, Dieyphus 
palhdicornis, are found on it. 
Digitalis, Gesner, is from the Latin in allusion to the finger-like 
shape of the corolla, and the second Latin name refers to its colour. 
Foxglove is called Dead Man’s Bell, Blob, Bloody Finger, Bloody 
Man’s Fingers, Bluidy Bells, Cottagers, Cowflop, Cowslip, Cowslop, 
Dead Men’s Bellows, Flap or Pop Dock, Flop or Flous Docken, Dog- 
fingers, Dog’s-lugs, Dragon’s Mouth, Fairies’ Petticoats, Fairy Bell, 
Fairy Cap, Fairy, Fingers, Fairy Glove, Lady’s Purple, Flap-dock, 
Flobby Dock, Flop-a-dock, Folk’s Glove, Fox-docken, Fox-fingers, 
Foxglove, Foxter-leaves, Foxtree, Green Pops or Poppies, Goose 
Flops, King’s Elwand, Lady Glove, Lady’s Thimble, Lion’s Mouth, 
Lusmore, Scotch Wild Mercury, Pop-glove, Poppers, Poppy, Pops, 
Rabbit Flower, Snapdragon, Snaps, Snoxuns, Thimble, Fairy Thimble, 
Witches’ Thimble. It is called Pops (and Pop Dock) because children 
inflate the corolla, and then make it bang like a paper bag. 
As to the name Snoxuns the forest folk have a saying, ‘A went 
a-buz’n away like a dumbley dory in a snoxun”, which they apply to 
a dull preacher. Snock means a sharp blow, and it may be applied for 
the same reason as the last. Foxgloves are called Cottagers ‘ because 
they belong to the poor people”. 
“In Suffolk and Essex”, a writer says, “they are called Blobs, 
because the children pull off a flower, and with the fingers of one hand 
closing up the mouth and giving the other end a slap, it bursts with 
a noise like the word blob.” 
Gerarde says: ‘‘Some do call them finger flowers because they are 
like unto the fingers of a glove, the ends cut off”. In regard to the 
name Flap Dock, a writer says: ‘‘I knew an old countryman once who 
compared a prosy preacher to a drumble drane (humble bee) upon a 
flapper dock.” Flowster docken means a dock with showy flower, 
