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A DICTIONARY OF 
Fowl Grass, Fowl Meadow-grass, or Fold Meadow-grass. ‘The 
grass known by the above names to the London seedsmen and experi- 
mental farmer, is generally believed to be the Foa trivialis.' — With, 
ed. ii. 
Fox-docken. Digitalis purpurea, L. — FA*5. (Whitby), E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 2. 
Fox-feet. Lycopodium Selago, L. — Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8. 
Fox-fingers. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Yks. (Wliitby), E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 2. 
Fox Geranium. Geranium Rohertianum, L . — ‘A name which the 
species has received from the disagreeable scent of its leaves.’ — E. 
Ford. Bot. E. Bord. 
Foxglove. (1) Digitalis p)'^^' pur ea, L. — General; Turn. Herb.; 
Ches. ; /S.-TF. Cumb. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. It seems mmst likely 
that the derivation folks’-glove {i. e. fairies’-glove) is the correct one ; 
other names, as Eairy-cap, Fairies’ Thimbles, Fairies’ Petticoats, and 
the Welsh Menig Ellyllyn (Fairies’ Glove) and Bysedd Ellyllyn 
(Fairies’ Fingers), show a connection between the plant and the 
‘ good folk.’ Several notes bearing on the subject will be found in 
Science Gossip for 1870 : see also Prior, p. 84. 
(2) Verhascum Thapsus, L. — ‘ Hegtaper, called Foxglove .^ — Mascal, 
Government of Cattle, p. 236. 
Foxglove, Blue. Campanula Traclielium, L. — Sal. (Tilstock). 
Foxglove, Ladies. Verhascum Thapsus, L. — With. ed. ii. 
Foxglove, White. Campanula Traclielium, V.^Lanc. Probably 
this is a mistake for C. latifoUa, L., of which the flowers are of so 
pale a blue as to be almost white, and which is so called at Silverdale 
{Lane.). 
Fox Grass. Geranium Rohertianum, L. — Encyclopaedia of Agri- 
culture. From the smell resembling that of a fox. 
Fox Rose. Rosa spinosissima , L. — Warm. 
Fox’s Brush. Centranthus ruher, DC. — Hunts. IST. & Q. 4, vi. 68. 
Fox’s Claws. Lycopodium clavatum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Fox’s Foot. Dactylis glomerata, L. — E. Bord. ‘The clustered panicle 
somewhat resembles a fox’s foot.’ — Bot. E. Bord. Mr. Cockayne (ii. 
385) assigns the name to Sparganium simplex, L. 
Foxstones. Orchis mascula, L. — Turn. Herb. 
Foxtail. From the form of the fruit or flower-head. 
(1) Lycopodium clavatum, L.— Pratt. 
(2) Lagurus ovatus, L. — Lyte. 
Foxtailed Asparagus. Eguisetum maximum, L. — Glou. We find 
the explanation of this curious name in Lyte, who aptly calls the 
fertile spikes of the Equiset.i, and especially those of this S23ecies, 
Asparagus, which they sufficiently resemble. In his MS. notes in the 
copy of Dodoens before referred to (Bibl. Mus. Br. 442, h. 9), he has 
written against the figure of the fertile frond of this plant, ‘ The 
