ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 313 
London Lace. The variegated form of Plialaris arundinacea, L. — 
Sal. 
London Pink. Geranium Rohertianum, L. — Glou. 
London Pride. (1) Dlanthus barhatus^Yi. — ‘It is now commonly 
called in most places London Pride.'' Ger. Emac. 598. Nhamp. Nth. 
Gloss. ; Yks. (Holderness), E. D. S. Gloss. C. 7. In Sutherland’s 
Hortus Medicus Edinensis (1613) it is called Pride of London. Another 
allied Bianthus was called Pride of Austria (Ger. 479). 
(2) Saxifragaumbrosa,lj. — In general use. dies.; Lane. ; Middx.; 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Prior (p. 137) says ‘it is understood upon 
apparently good authority, that of Mr. E. Howard in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, to have been given to this latter plant in reference to the 
person who introduced it into cultivation, Mr. London, of the firm of 
London and AVise, the celebrated royal gardeners of the early part of 
the last century.’ But Mr. Howard does not state this on his own 
authority, but says only that he has ‘ somewhere read ’ it ; and this 
origin for the name is not the correct one. Threlkeld (1727) is the 
earliest writer we have found applying the name to this plant — ‘ vulgo 
London Prided (Appendix to Synopsis, p. 2.) 
London Rocket. A book-name for Sisi/mhr'ium Irio, L. — With. ed. 
vii. Prior, p. 137. ‘ After the great Eire in London, in the Years 
1667, 1668, it came up abundantly among the Eubbish in the Euines.’ 
E. Syn. ed. iii. 298. 
London Tuft. Dianthus harhaius, L. (gardens). — Park. Parad. 320. 
Line. ; Nhamp. Nth. Gloss. ; Norf. ; Buff. 
Long-leaf. Scolopendrium vulgare, Sym. — Hants. 
Long Purples. (1) Orchis mascula, L. — Bom. ; Suss. Parish. 
‘ Long Purples, 
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 
But our cold maids do Headmen’s fingers call them.’ 
Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 7. 
There is no doubt that this was the plant intended by Shakespeare. 
The synonym he quotes is still in use for the plant (see Headmen’s 
Fingers), and the many ‘ grosser names ’ which the Orchis still 
receives are further evidence on the point. But this is hardly the 
‘ long purples of the dale ’ of Tennyson (A Dirge). 
(2) Lythrum Salicaria, L. — Nhamp. Sternb., Nth. Gloss. This is 
certainly the plant of Clare’s Village Minstrel, ii. 90. 
‘ Gay long-purples with its tufty spike : 
She’d wade o’er shoes to reach it in the dyke.’ 
Longwort. See Lungwort. Hal. and Wr. assign the name to 
‘ Pellitory of Spain’ {Anacyclus Pyrethrum, DC.). 
Lonnachs. See Lonachies. 
Lont-figs. ‘ Dried figs. Somd Hal. Wr. 
Look-up-and-kiss-me. Viola tricolor, L. — Cornw. 
