178 POPULAR NAMES 



PENNY-WORT, from its round leaves, 



Sibthorpia europsea, L. 



in old works Linaria Cymbalaria, L. 



MARSH-, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, L. 



WALL-, Cotyledon Umbilicus, L. 



PEONY, or PIONY, L. Pceonia, Gr. Trauovia, from IIcuwv, 

 a god of physic, supposed to be the same as Apollo, who 

 healed the gods Ares and Hades of their wounds (Horn. 

 II. v. 401 and 899), Paeonia corallina, Retz. 



PEPPER, L. piper, Gr. irnrepi, Skr.pippali. 



WALL-, from its biting taste, and place of growth, 



Sedum acre, L. 



,, WATER-, Polygonum Hydropiper, L. 



and also Elatine Hydropiper, L. 



PEPPER-CROP, a cyme or head of flowers with the pun- 

 gent taste of pepper, the stone-crop, Sedum acre, L. 



PEPPER-GRASS, a plant with linear grass-like leaves, and 

 pepper-corn-like pellets of inflorescence, 



Pilularia globulifera, L. 



PEPPER-MINT, Mentha piperita, L. 



PEPPER SAXIFRAGE, Silaus pratensis, L. 



PEPPER-WORT, from their acrid taste, the cresses, but 

 more particularly Lepidium latifolium, L. 



PERCEPIER, Fr. percepierre, pierce-stone, from its sup- 

 posed lithontriptic virtues, Alchemilla arvensis, Sin. 



PERIWINKLE, in Chaucer and other old poets spelt PER- 

 VINKE and PERVENKE, M.Lat. pervincula, dim. of L. per- 

 mnca, from per, about, and vincire, bind, this plant having 

 been used for chaplets, as in the Ballad against the Scots, 

 1.123: 

 " A garlande ofpervenke set on his heved." Bitson, vol. i. p. 33. 



Vinca major, and minor, L. 



PERSIAN WILLOW, oftener called FRENCH WILLOW, al- 

 though really an American plant, from the resemblance 

 of its leaves to willow leaves, and its foreign origin, 



Epilobium angustifolium, L. 



