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PARADISE PLANT. Common Mezereon, Daphne 
Mezereum. Rev. H. N. Ellacombe, rector of 
Bitton, said (1869) ‘‘ the usual name for the shrub 
in these parts is the ‘ Paradise Plant.’ ”’ 
PARASOLS. (1) Lesser Convolvulus or Field 
Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis. 
(2) The Salad Burnet, Poterium Sanguisorba 
(Little Langford, Wilts). 
PaRK LEAVES. Common Tutsan, Hypericum 
Androsemum. Dr. Prior thinks this, as well as 
its French synonym parceur (= by heart) are 
no doubt corruptions, with reference perhaps 
to its perked (or prickled) leaves. 
PARROT’S BEAK (or Bint). A popular English 
name for a New Zealand pliant, Clianthus puniceus ; 
so called from its curved upper petal. 
PARSLEY FERN. (1) The general English 
name for the fern Cryptogramme crispa, which 
Dr. Watson tells me does not occur in Somerset, 
but is found in N. Devon. It was found near 
Simonsbath in 1872, but is probably extinct 
there now. 
(2) The Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, from the 
resemblance of its leaves to parsley. 
PARSON AND CLERK. The Wild Arum or 
Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum. More often 
called PARSON IN THE PULPIT. 
PARSON IN THE PULPIT. (1) A common name 
throughout the district for the Wild Arum or 
Cuckoo-pint, Arum maculatum. 
(2) The Rev. H. Friend says the name is also 
given to the Monk’s-hood, Aconitum Napellus. 
(3) <A correspondent at Plush (Dorset) gives it 
as a local name for the Polyanthus. 
PASMENT. Parsnip (G. P. R. Pulman). See 
PASSMENT. 
PASMET. Parsnip (Wilts). 
Pa’SON IN THE PULPIT. See PARSON. 
PASQUE-FLOWER. A name popularly given to 
almost any species of Anemone blossoming about 
Haster, but more particularly to the Dane-flower, 
A. Pulsatiila, of which this is the general English 
name. 
PASSMENT. Mr. F. T. Elworthy gives this as 
a@ very common corruption of Parsnip in West 
Somerset. See PASMENT. 
PASSION FLOWER. (1) The general English 
name for the Brazilianplant, Passifloracerulea, said. 
to have been first found by Jesuit missionaries. The 
whole plant wasemblematicaltothem, and was thus 
explained :—‘‘ The leaves represented the spear 
which pierced our Saviour’s side; the tendrils, 
the cords which bound His hands, or the stripes 
with which He was scourged ; the ten petals, the 
ten apostles who deserted Him; the pillar in the 
