Sc. and north. [Of obscure origin.] The cuckoo-flower or lady-smock, Cardamine pratensis.

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  Freq. erroneously defined as ‘a pink’ (Jamieson, 1808), or confused with other plants, as the primrose or polyanthus.

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1773.  Fergusson, Poems (1785), 139. Or can our flow’rs, at ten hours bell The Gowan or the Spink excell?

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1806.  A. Douglas, Poems, 99. Countless spinks an’ daisies springin, Gaily deckt ilk vale an’ hill.

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1819.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 9. Dear daffodillies, Kingcups and spinks, and livelie lillies.

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