1H2 POPULAR NAMES 



PINE-SAP, either from its sapping the pine, or growing 

 from the juices of the pine, a modern term left by its 

 author unexplained, Monotropa Hipopitys, L. 



PINK, L.Germ. pinksten, Whitsuntide, as in the first 

 line of Reineke de Vos, 



" It geschach up einen pinkste dach," 

 " It happened on a Whitsunday," 



the season of flowering of one of its species, the Whitsun- 

 tide-gilliflower of old authors. The dictionaries derive it 

 from a supposed Dutch word, pink, an eye ; one, however, 

 that does not appear to have any such meaning in that 

 language. It is a curious accident, that a word, that 

 originally meant " fiftieth/' irevr^Koa-rrj, should come to 

 be successively the name of a festival of the Church, of a 

 flower, of an ornament in muslin called pinking, of a colour, 

 and of a sword-stab. See PIGGESNIE. Dianthus, L. 



CHEDDAR-, or CLIFF-, from its occurrence on 

 Cheddar clifis, D. csesius, L. 



CLOVE-, from its odour of cloves, 



D. Caryophyllus, L. 



CUSHION-, from its habit, Silene acaulis, L. 

 DEPTFOBD-, from its place of growth in Gerarde's 

 time, D. Armeria, L. 



MAIDEN-, more properly, MEADOW-, G. wiesen- 

 nelke, from its place of growth, a confusion of maid and 

 mead, D. deltoides, L. 



PINK-NEEDLE, from the resemblance of its long tapering 

 awns to the needle used in pinking, or making eyelet holes 

 like pinks, in muslin, 



Erodium moschatum and cicutarium, L. 

 PINK-WEED, from the colour of the stems, 



Polygonum aviculare, L. 



PIPE-TREE, the lilac, from its branches having a large 

 pith that is easily bored out to make pipe-sticks, whence 

 also its Latin name from Gr. avp^, Syringa, L. 



