BRITISH NAMES* 
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Poplar, balsam ; or tacamahaca 
Popple; or cockie 
Poppy 
Poppy, common corn 
Poppy, red horned* 
Poppy, yellow horned 
Poppy, prickly ; or fig infernal 
Poppy, spading; or white behen 
Pork weed; pork physic; or 
American nightshade 
Potatoe, common 
Potatoe, Indian ; or yam 
Potatoe, or batata ; Spanish 
Prick, or skewer wood ; or sj 
die tree 
Primrose, common 
Primrose, common night 
Primrose tree 
Primrose, peerless 
Prince’s feather 
Privet; or primp 
Privet, Egyptian ; or hennaf 
Privet, evergreen 
Privet, mock ; or phyllyrea 
Privy-saugh 
Prune; or plum 
Puccoon 
Puccoon, base Virginian 
Pudding pipe tree 
Puff-ball; or fuz-ball 
Pulegium; or pennyroyal 
Pulsatilla; or pasque flower 
Pumpkin (see Pompion) 
Purging grane, oily 
Purslain, common 
Populus balsamiferd 
Agrostemma githago 
Papaver 
Papaver rhoeas 
Chdidonium comicalat um 
Chdidonium glaucium 
Argemone 
Cucubalus behen 
Phytolacca decandria 
Solanum tuberosum 
Dioscorea bulhifera 
Convolvulus batatas 
^ Euonymus 
Primula veris (acaulis) 
Oenothera biennis 
Oenothera fruticosa 
Narcissus odorus 
Amaranthus caudatus 
Ligustrum vulgare 
Lawsonia inermis 
Rhamnus alaternus 
Phillyrea 
Ligustrum 
Prunus domestica 
Sanguinaria canadensis 
Anchusa virginica 
Cassia fistula 
Lycoperdon bovista 
Mentha pulegium 
Anemone pulsatilla 
Cucurbita pepo 
Sesamum orientals 
Portulaca oleracea 
* A curious circumstance attends the horned poppy; when the flower fades, 
the pistillum or seed-vessel elongates to 10 or 12 inches, to contain more seed ; 
Whence the name. 
+A powder is prepared from the leaves of Egyptian privet called alcanna, alken- 
na, or henna, in which the city of Cairo employs a considerable trade. It is much 
used by the Turks, as well as in Egypt, for colouring the nails and hair of a gold 
colour; in dying it gives a yellow colour with water, and red with vinegar. 
