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Publicans-and-Sinners. ‘ Applied in Oxf. to Marsh Marigold 
{Caltlia 2 ^colustris, L.) and Buttercups [Ranunculus) when they grow 
together.’ Eev. H. Friend. 
Puckfist. Lycoperdon Bovista, L. — Hal. Wr. Frequently used by 
early writers as a term of contempt; as in Ben Johnson’s Alchemist, 
Act I. sc. ii. 1. 63, Yicars’s Coleman Street Conclave Visited (London, 
1648), p. 13, &c. Cfr. Fuzz-ball. In Olou. Puckfoust (Cotswold 
Gloss.). An Irish name for it is Cos-a-Pliooka, or Pooka’s foot, i. e. 
Puck’s foot: Keightley’s Fairy Mythology, p. 317. Prior, p. 189. 
Puck Needle. Scandix Pecten, L. — Hants. Holl. Suss. Holl. 
Pratt has Pucker Needle. 
Puddings, Black. See Black Puddings. 
Pudding Grass. See Grass, Pudding. 
Pudding -herb (‘ Pudding -yerh ’)• Mentha Pulegium, L. — Ties. 
(Whitby), where it is used for flavouring black-puddings. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 4. Aubrey (Boyal Soc. MS. fob 119) has Pudding-Wort. 
Cfr. Grass, Pudding. 
Puddock Pipes. Various species of Equisetum. ‘A moss-herb.’ 
Mactaggart’s Gallovidian Encyclopaedia. Clackmannansh. 
Puddock’s Spindles. Orchis Morio, L. — Perthsh. 
Puddock-stool. Various species of fungi. Mactaggart’s Gallovidian 
Encyclopaedia. Scotl. Jamieson. 
Pudroom. ‘A fungus or toadstool.’ Nhamp. 
Puff-ball. Various species of Lycoperdon. Hants. Holl. ; Sal. ; 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Hal. gives Puff as a Som. equivalent. 
Prior, p. 190. 
Puffes-fists. Lycoperdon Bovista, L. — Ger. (in Index Puffe-fistes). 
Puffin-pea. A variety of Pisuni sativum, L. — Herts. ‘ A forward 
hog-pea, called here [Eickmansworth] puffi^n-pea.’ Ellis, Modern 
Husbandman, vol. iv. pt. hi. p. 44. 
Puliall-mountain. See Pella mountain. 
Puliall, or Puliol Eoyal. Mentha Pnlerjium, L. — Lyte. 
Pull-dailies. Orchis latifolia, L. — Edinhurghsh. 
Pull-ling. Eriophorwn. ‘ A moss plant.’ Scotland. Jamieson. 
Pull Pipes (pool-pipes). Various species of Equisetum. Westm. 
(Grasmere, &c.). 
Pull Eeed. Phragmites communis, Trin. — ‘ A long reed used for 
ceilings instead of laths.’ Som. Hal. 
Pull Spear. Phragmites communis, Trin. — South. Hal. 
Pulsatill. Anemone Pulsatilla, L. — Ger. ‘ After the Latin name.’ 
Punk. Polyporus squamosus, L. — Sal. 
Puppy. See Poppy. 
