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PinK BrRp’s-EYE. Herb Robert, Geranium 
Robertianum (a school-girl at Lottisham). 
Pingres. Red Clover, Trifolium pratense 
(Leigh, Dorset). 
PinK More. A rough kind of grass in the 
meadows which cattle refuse; probably some 
kind of Carex (Wilts Glossary). 
PiInK PINAFORES. The Herb Robert, Geranium 
Robertianum (Stoke Abbott, Dorset). Compare 
DoLLy’s APRON and PRINT PINAFORE. 
PINK WEED. Common Knot-grass, Polygonum 
aviculare (Leigh, Dorset). 
Pins AND NEEDLES. (1) Various species of 
Thistle. 
(2) Common Furze, Ulex europaeus (East 
(3) Fruit of Shepherd’s Needle, Scandix 
Pecten-Veneris (Curry Mallet). 
(4) Greater Stitechwort, Stellaria Holostea 
(Shoscombe). 
(5) Field Scabious, Scabiosa arvensis (Brad- 
ford-on-Tone). 
(6) London Pride, Sazxifraga wumbrosa (Stal- 
bridge). 
Pins’ Heaps. Red Spur Valerian, Kentranthus 
ruber (Stoke-under-Ham). 
Prrzs. Acorns (Hatch Beauchamp). No 
doubt in consequence of the cups with stalks 
attached being used as imitation pipes. 
PIPE-TREE. Correspondents in Dorset and 
Devon send me this name for the Lilac, Syringa 
vulgaris. 
Pippiar. A mis-pronunciation of Poplar, at 
one time very frequently heard in Somerset. 
Piesy PHars(= Pixy Pears). Ia the Watchet 
district applied to both Hips and Haws, i.e., the 
fruits of the Wild Rose and of the Hawthorn. 
Several correspondents in the Bridgwater district 
give it as a local name for the latter only. 
Piss-A-BED. A very general name for the 
Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. The plant is 
said to have a name equivalent to this in every 
language in Europe. Also in most languages @ 
pee name meaning “lion’s tooth.’ Our 
nglish name Dandelion is a corruption of the 
French dent de lion. See MEsS-A-BED. 
PircHeR. A Willow Plant (Rev. Wm. Barnes). 
Mr. T. W. Cowan says ‘‘a pollard willow.” — 
Prxies. Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea 
(Devon). In some parts of that county the 
children believe they will be pixy-led if they 
gather this flower. 
Pixy Hoarpines. The small apples left on 
the trees after the “heard fruit’? has been 
