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French synonym, parcoeur, by heart, seems, like the Eng- 

 lish name, to have been suggested by the Latin, through 

 an accidental coincidence of sound. H. Androssemum, L. 



PARNASSUS GRASS, a plant supposed to be one described 

 by Dioscorides as growing on Mount Parnassus, 



Parnassia palustris, L. 



PARSLEY, spelt in the Grete Herball Percely, Fr. persil, 

 L. petroselinum, from Gr. Trerpo?, rock, and cre\ivov, some 

 umbelliferous plant, P. sativum, Koch. 



BASTARD-, or BUR, Caucalis daucoides, L. 



Cow-, Chserophyllum sylvestre, L. 



FOOL'S-, (Ethusa Cynapium, L. 



HEDGE-, Caucalis Anthriscus, Huds. 



MILK-, Peucedanum palustre, Mn. 



STONE-, Sison Amomum, L. 



PARSLEY-FERN, from the resemblance of its fronds to 

 parsley leaves, Cryptogramma crispa, R.B. 



PARSLEY-PIERT, or PARSLEY-BREAK-STONE, Fr. perce- 

 pierre, of percer, pierce, and pierre, stone, from its being 

 used in cases of stone in the bladder, and so called, accord- 

 ing to W. Coles (Ad. in Ed. ch. 222), "from its eminent 

 faculties to that purpose," Alchemilla arvensis, Sm. 



PARSNIP, or, as it is spelt in old herbals, PASNEP and 

 PASTNIP, from It. pastinaca, by change of c to p, 



Pastinaca sativa, L. 



Cow-, Heracleum Sphondylium, L. 



WATER-, Sium latifolium, L. 



PASQUE-or PASSE-FLOWER, Fr. pasques, Gr. Troo^a, Heb. 

 pesach, a crossing over, from its blossoming at Easter, that 

 in old works was called Pask, as in Robert of Brunne, 

 p. 263 : 



"Fro gole to }?e pasTi, werred Sir Edward," 



and Passe or Pase, as in Levin's Hanip. col. 36. 



Anemone Pulsatilla, L. 

 PASSIONS, or PATIENCE, a dock so called, apparently, 



