Midsummer to Michaelmas 
each other ; also a pretty scarlet seedling, Chelone Barhata 
(Turtlehead) ; it is so pretty, like a scarlet Solomon’s Seal 
without overshadowing leaves. Coral-drops would be a 
good name for it. It is like a lady’s old-fashioned ear- 
drops. 
In the Dene there are some Foxgloves. Dene is a 
word used here for a glen or a hollow, and is an Anglo- 
Saxon word. A Dane used to be called a Densman. In 
Norway the Foxgloves are called Foxbells —Ravebjelde and 
Fingerbol ; and one of the German names for them is 
rather pretty — Waldglockchen. They are also called Finger- 
hut, meaning Fingerstall or Thimble-flower, which is 
pretty much the same as in Holland and Denmark. Some 
rather gruesome old Scotch names are Dead Men’s 
Fingers, Dead Men’s Bells, Bludie-fingers, Dogs’-lugs, and 
Bloody-bells. But the prettiest name they bear is at a place 
called Green Law or the Green Hill, that of the King’s 
Ellwand — I suppose the measuring-stick of the King of the 
Fairies. In Roxburghshire, Orion’s Belt used to be called 
the King’s Ellwand. In Wales the Foxglove is called Elf’s- 
glove ; and it is possible the word Foxglove may be 
just Folksglove, meaning the Gude Folk or Fairies, unless 
it is from the Anglo-Saxon gliew , the musical instrument. 
Some old English names are Fingerwort, Fox-finger, and 
Dragon’s-mouth, while, from an old notion witches deco- 
rated their fingers with Foxglove-flowers, they were 
called hereabouts Witches’ - thimbles. Fairy - cap is 
another name, of Irish origin I think, and our Border 
lassies call them Ladies’-thimbles. In France they are 
Gants de Notre Dame and Gants de Bergere , and in Italy 
Guantelli. To-day I went to see the baby Hedgepig in his 
retreat among the leaves. I found him lying just as I had 
left him, but cold, cold i I tried reviving him with milk 
and brandy in a spoon, as the old song says that is good 
for a swoon, and partially succeeded. But he seemed so 
ill and faint I took him to the kitchen, and rolling him up 
in flannel, installed him in a box on the kitchen-range. 
Presently, on getting warm, he seemed a little better, and 
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