174 POPULAR NAMES 



seems to be formed from pantts, a head of millet, and to be 

 connected with panis, bread, from an ancient root pa, feed, 

 retained in pa-sco, pa-bulum, and pa-ter. See Bopp. comp. 

 Gram. p. 1164. Panicum, L. 



PANSY, or PAUNCE, Yr.pensee, thought, once called menues 

 pensees, It. pensieri menuti, idle thoughts, G. unnutze sorge. 

 Dr. Johnson and Talbot would derive the name from 

 L. panacea, but the plant has never been called so, nor 

 regarded as a panacea. Its habit of coquettishly hanging 

 its head, and half hiding its face, as well as some fancied 

 resemblances in the throat of the corolla, has led to many 

 quaint names in our own, and in foreign languages : " Cull 

 me-," or " Cuddle me to you," " Love and idle," " Live in 

 idleness," or " Love in idleness," a line, perhaps, of some 

 song or poem, " To live and love in idleness," but origi- 

 nally, it would seem, " Love in idle," that is, " in vain," 

 and in Lobel, " Love in idle Pances," " Tittle my fancy," 

 " Kiss me, ere I rise," " Jump up and kiss me," " Kiss me 

 at the garden gate," " Pink of my John," and several 

 more of the same amatory character. From its three 

 colours combined in one flower, it is called " Herb Trinity," 

 and " Three faces under a hood ;" from confusion with the 

 wallflower, "Heartsease;" and from M.Lat. viola flammea, 

 " Flame flower." There is no plant, except, possibly, the 

 ground ivy, that has obtained so many names, and curious 

 sobriquets. Viola tricolor, L. 



PARIS, see HERB PARIS. 



PARK-LEAVES, a name that seems, like its Danish, 

 Swedish, and Norwegian synonym, pirkum or perkum, to 

 have been suggested by L. Hypericum, Gr. vjrepitcov, but 

 taken in the sense of perked or pricked leaves, from those 

 of the commonest species of the genus, H. perforatum, L. 

 being so dotted with resinous deposits, as to look as if they 

 were pricked all over ; a character not observable in that 

 to which the name of Park-leaf is now restricted. Its 



