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Pearls of Spain. The white-flowered variety of Mascari hotryoides, 
Mill. — ‘ Some English gentlewomen call the white grape-flower 
Pearles of Spaine! Park. Farad, p. 115. 
Pease Everlasting. Lathynis sylvestris, L. — Ger. 
Pebble-vetch. A cultivated variety of Vicia scdiva, L. — ‘The 
pehNe-vetcli is a summer-vetch, different from the goar-vetch, and 
not so big.’ Lisle’s Husbandry (1757), p. 125. 
Pedelyon. (1) Alcliemilla vulgaris, L. — Grete Herball. Lyte has 
Padelion. 
(2) Hellehorus niyer, L. — Grete Herball. Ger. Appx. Hal. 
(Pedelion). 
Pedlar’s Basket. (1) Linaria Cymhalaria, Mill. — Hal. Wr. Clies, ; 
Cumb. ; Derh. (Bakewell) ; Lam. (Ormskirk) ; Westm. 
{2) Saxifraga sarmentosa, Jj . — Chcs. ; Lane.; Sal. 
Pee-a-bed. Leontodon Taraxacum, L. — Dev. A euphemistic form 
of Piss-a-bed. 
Peep o’ day. Ornithogalum umbellatum, L. — Sal. (Wem). 
Peeseweep Grass. See Grass, Peeseweep. 
Peggall Bush. Crataegus Oxyacantha, L. — Wilts. Household 
Words, vol. X. p. 173. The fruit Pegalls or Pigalls. East, Wr. 
Peggie. See Paigle. 
Peg-roots. LLelleborus viridis, L. — ‘Hippitriaci a pecuarii in liie 
jumentorum huic plurimum confidunt, scilicet bourn palearia, equo- 
rum cutem infra cervicem, pecudum aures stylo pertundunt, dein 
fibres radicum hujus per vulnus transadigunt, unde Fey -roots 
dicuntur.’ S. Dale’s Pharmacologia (ed. hi.), 1737, p. 177. Prior, 
p. 177. Cfr. Setter-wort. 
Peletir. ‘ The pellitory, Palsgrave.’ Hal. P ariet aria officinalis, 1^.% 
Pella-mountain, or Puliall-mountain. Thymus SerpylhLin, L. ? also 
Teucrium Folium, L. — Lyte. Apparently a corruption of Fideyium 
montanum, its old Latin name. Prior, p. 177. 
Pellas. Fruits of Malva rotundifolia, L. — Cornw, (Truro). 
Pelles. See Pillas. 
Pellitory, Bastard. See Bastard Pellitory. 
Pellitory, Wild. Achillea Ptarmica, L. — Lyte. The garden form 
was called Double White Pellitory. Park. Parad. 
Pellitory of Spain. Anacyclus Pyrethum, DC. Ger., and still in 
use in pharmacographical books. The name seems to have been 
vaguely employed by old writers : Lyte applies it to Lmperatoria 
Ostruthium, L., and Ger. (p. 484) says that Achillea Ptarmica, L., 
was so called, ‘taking that name from his sharp and biting taste,’ in 
which it resembled the Anacyclus. 
Pellitory of the Wall. Parietaria officinalis, L. — In Buch's. cor- 
rupted to Penalty- of- the -wall. Lyte. E. Ford. Bot. E. Bord. 
See Parietary. 
