FLOWERING PLANTS. 139 
single plant on the roadside about a quarter of a mile to the eastward. 
Babington found this species at Mont Cuet. 
Digitalis purpurea, L. Foxglove. 
Native. First record : Gosselin, 1815. 
Rather common in the central and southern districts : more rare 
in the lowlands. Very plentiful and fine on some parts of the cliffs. 
Gosselin appears to have found the rare white-flowered variety, as he 
gives in his list, besides the common species, Digitalis alba, White- 
flowered Foxglove. 
This plant is known in the patois under the plural name of 
Claquets, because, says Métivier, ‘les enfants s’amusent 4 faire 
claquer \es fleurs’ by bursting them on the palm of the hand; just 
as the plant is called #/ods in the eastern counties, and Pepdock in 
Cornwall. The word Foxglove has no association whatever either 
with the animal of that name or with the covering for the hand, but 
etymologically simply means Fazries’ music: and the idea of a merry 
peal being rung out from these dappled bells during the stillness of 
a summer night is exceedingly poetical. 
Antirrhinum majus, L. Great Snapdragon. 
Alien. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Established on walls in various parts of the town and suburbs. 
Less frequent in the rural districts. King’s Mills. Sohier, Vale. 
In Guernsey, where the plant is commonly grown in gardens, it 
goes by the name of Gou/e de Lion (in Normandy Gueule de Lion), 
a name which, like our Swafdragon, would seem to signify the 
devourer, the flowers being perfect insect-traps. 
Antirrhinum Orontium, L. Corn Snapdragon. 
Colonist. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent in cultivated fields and gardens in all parts of the 
island. 
The French name of this species is AZujflzer, from mzufie, a muzzle, 
owing to the fancied resemblance of the ripe capsule to the face or 
muzzle of an animal. 
Linaria Cymbalaria, Mill. Loy-leaved Toadflax. 
Alien. First record: Marquand, r8o1. 
Frequent in almost all districts on old walls, especially in the 
neighbourhood of the town: occasionally to be found in old 
quarries. 
Often called Mother of Millions, though the appropriateness of 
the term is by no means obvious. Perhaps Tennyson had this 
plant in mind when he penned that exquisite little verse beginning : 
‘Flower in the crannied wall, 
I pluck you out of the crannies.’ 
