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centre of the flower, the cross or the pillar to 
which He was bound ; the stamens, the hammers ; 
the styles, the nails; the inner circle around the 
central pillar, the crown of thorns; the radius 
round it, the nimbus of glory ; the white in the 
flower is an emblem of purity ; the blue, a type 
of Heaven.”’ 
(2) Miss Ella Ford (Melplash) gives this as a 
local name for the Anemone. See PAsqQuE- 
FLOWER. 
PATIENCE. (1) Monx’s Rhubarb, Rumezx 
alpinus. See GARDEN PATIENCE. 
(2) The Patience Dock, Rumezx Patientia, so 
called from the slowness of its operation as a 
medicine. 
Mr. T. W. Cowan tells me that this name is 
probably derived from the French lapace (Latin, 
lapathium) = sorrel ; misunderstood as la patience. 
He quotes from Cotgrave, who gives Lapace, 
as a name for “the ordinary or sharp-pointed 
dock,” and Lapas or Patience for ‘‘ Monk’s 
Rhewbarb.”’ 
PATTENS AND CLoGs. (1) Bird’s-foot Trefoil, 
Lotus corniculatus. 
(2) Less frequently, the Yellow Toadflax, 
Linaria vulgaris. 
Patty CAREY. A Wiltshire corruption of the 
name Hepatica. 
PAUL’s BETONY. Miss Ella Ford (Melplash) 
gives me this as a local name for the Germander 
Speedwell, Veronica Chamaedrys; this is appar- 
ently due to confusion with the Common Speed- 
well. V. officinalis, to which the name was formerly 
applied. 
PEACE AND PLENTY.—Miss Masey, of Taunton, 
gives me this as a Somerset name for the London 
Pride, Saxifraga umbrosa. The compilers of the 
Wiltshire Glossary give it as being applied in 
S.W. Wilts to a “kind of small double white 
garden Saxifrage.”’ 
PEACH BELLS. The Peach-leaved Bell-flower, 
Campanula persicifolia (Rev. H. Friend). 
PEAGLES. A form of the name PAIGLEs, used 
in many parts of Somerset and Dorset for the 
Cowslip, Primula veris. 
PEA THATCHES. Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus 
corniculatus (Wells). 
Precksins. Dr. R. C. Knight writes :—‘* The few 
apples left in an orchard after the picking is 
completed. It is used in two ways :—(i) Ther’s 
a vew PECKSINS left. (ii) Oh! lef’? they vur 
Prcxsins. I feel convinced that the derivation 
of this word is to be found in this latter render- 
ing = ‘ Leave them for the pixies,’ which would 
be only a particular case of the very general 
belief of other days that the pixies must be pro- 
vided for.”” See Prxy HOARDING and PIXy-woRrpD. 
