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, 

 Bombiis, 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, Antherophagus nigricornis, Apteropoda graminis, 

 three moths, Melittis artemis, Small Angle-shades (Euplexia liicipara], 

 Sword-grass (Calocampa exoletct), and a Heteropterous insect, Dicypkus 

 pallidicornis, 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, 



