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(2) Cornus sanguinea, L. — ‘ The Pricke-timber tree, bycause butcher’s 
use to make prickes of it.’ Lyte, p. 726. See Prick Tree. 
Prick Tree. Cornus sanguinea, L. ‘ Some because butchers use to 
make prickes of it cal it jprick tree.'' Turn. Herb. pt. i. 168. For the 
same reason Skinner calls Euonymus europceus, L., Butcher’s Prick 
Tree, a name assigned by Ger. to Rhamnus Frangula, L. 
Prickwood. (1) Euonymus europceus, L. — Ger. Suss. Prior, 
p. 187. 
(2) Cornus sanguinea, L. — N. Bucks. ; South and East. Ray. 
Pride of London. Diayithus haiPatus, L. — Holme, Acad, of 
Armory, ii. 64. Park. Parad. (Index). See London Pride (1). 
Gerard gives Superha as one of the old Latin names of the plant. 
Another variety, formerly grown in London gardens, ‘ bearing most 
fine and pleasant white flowers, spotted very confusedly with reddish 
spots, which setteth fouth the beautie thereof . . hath been taken of 
some to be the plant called of the later writers Superha A ustriaca, or 
Pride of Austrich’ (Ger. 479). But there seems to have been some 
doubt as to what this really was : see Park. Parad. 316. 
Prie. Ligustrum vulgare, L. — Hal. Tusser (Five Hundred Points), 
E. D. S. ed. 
Prie-grass. See Pry. 
Priesties. Arum maculatum, L. — Lane, (in the Cliviger valley, 
near Burnley). 
Priest’s Crown. Leontodon Taraxacum, L., because the naked 
receptacle, after the seeds are blown away, resembles the shaven head 
of a priest. ‘ Priestes crowne that flyeth about in somer, barbedieu. 
Palsgrave.’ Hal. Prior, p. 187. 
Priest’s Hood. Arum maculatum, L. — ‘ Some call it prestos liode, 
for it hath as it were a cape and a tongue in it.’ Grete Herball. 
Priest’s Pintle. (1) Orchis mascula, L. — Lyte. dies.; S.-W. 
Cumh. ; Warw. Holme, Acad, of Armory, ii. 56. 
(2) Arum maculatum, L. — ‘ From the figure of the pestle or clapper 
in the middle of the hose.’ Coles, A. in E. p. 65. Cumh.; Derh. ; 
Durh.; Line. Lyte, Ger. 685 (abbreviated to Priest’s Pint at p. 1113). 
Prior, p. 187. 
Prim. Ligustrum vulgare, L. — Park. Parad. Tusser (Five Hun- 
dred Points), E. D. S. ed. Suss. Ger. has Primprint, which is per- 
haps the original name, subsequently shortened into Prim, as above, 
Primp (A.- IF. Line. E. D, S. Gloss. C. 6), and Print (With. ed. vii. ; 
Nhamp. Nth. Gloss.). Prior, p. 187. 
Primet. Primula vulgaris, L. — Grete Herball. Prior, p. 187. 
Prim Grass. See Grass, Prim. 
Primmily. Primida Auricula, L. — Suff. Moor. 
Primrose. (1) The general name for Primula vulgaris, L. — 
‘Ab aglis dicitur, a prymerose.' Turn. Lib. Lyte, who spells it 
Primerose. S.-W. Cumh.; E. Lord. Bot. E. Bord. Hal. and Wr. 
give Primerole, as an A.-N. form. Prior, p. 187. 
