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A DICTIONARY OF 
Plantage. 
‘ As true as steel, as Plantage to the moon.’ 
Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2. 
Prior (p. 184) thinks that the Moonwort {Botrychium Lunaria, L.) is 
here intended. 
Plantain. Plantane (Turn. Lib.). A common name for the species 
of Plantago, more especially P. major, L. — Grete Herball. S. Bucks 
(Plantany). Nhamp. (Plantum), Nth. Gloss. ; S. W. Cumh. ; E. 
Yks. ; E. BorcL Bot. E. Bord. (Planten) ; Prior, p. 184. P. Corono- 
pus, L., is the Buck’s-horn or Crowfoot Plantain (Lyte) ; P. major, 
L., the Great Plantain (Turn.); P. lanceolata, L., the Long Plan- 
tain (Grete Herbal.); P. maritima, L., the Sea Plantain; and 
Alisma Plantago, L., the Water Plantain. 
Plantain-shoreweed. A book-name for Littorella lacustris, L. — 
Prior, p. 184. 
Pleasant-in-sight. The double-flowered variety of Lyclmis Plos- 
cuculi, L. — With. ed. iv. 
Ploughman’s Spikenard. A common book-name for Inula Conyza, 
DC., apparently invented by Gerard. Prior, p. 184. 
Pluff. Lycoperdon Bovista, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Plum. Primus domestica, L. — Prior, p. 184. Hal. gives Ass-plum; 
‘ Florio has asinine, a kind of Asse-plum ; ’ and Barley-plum, ‘ a 
kind of dark purple plum. West. ; ’ a small red plum is called Horse- 
plum in dies. ; while Pruniis communis, L. (Lyte), and P. insititia, 
L. {Yks. (Cleveland)) are called Wild Plum. 
Plum Pudding. EpiJohium hirsutum, L. — dies. From its smell. 
See Apple-pie and Cherry-pie. 
Plum-rocks. Primida vulgaris, L. — Mactaggart’s Gallovidian 
Encyclopaedia. 
Plume-dames. ‘A Damascene plum.’ Jamieson. 
Plyvens. The flowers of Trifolium pratense, L. — Scotl. (Upper 
Clydesdale) Jamieson. 
Podder. (1) ‘A weed called podder, winding about hempe or other 
like.’ Hollyband’s Dictionarie. Hal. Perhaps a misprint for, or 
another form of, dodder (Cuscuta europcea, L.). 
(2) (i. e. p>od-ware.) ‘Beans, peas, tares, or vetches, or such ware 
as have pods.’ Hal. Kent. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3 ; 1. of Thanet, E. D. S. 
Gloss. B. 11. 
Pod-thistle. ‘ The broad-leaved thistle. Carduus acaulisj Nhamp. 
Nth. Gloss. Wr. Some other species, probably G. lanceolatus, L., is 
intended. 
Poison-berry. (1) Fruit of Tamus communis, L. — Dev. ; Kent 
(Eomney Marsh) ; Suss. Parish. 
(2) Fruit of Arum maculatum, L. — Yks. (Cleveland). 
(3) Fruit of Ilex Aquifolium, L. Yks. (Wensleydale). 
(4) Fruit of Solanum Bidcamara, L. — Oxf.; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
(Pushionberry). 
(5) Fruit of Iris foetidissima, L. — Dev. 
