Note 211:2 — PIONY.
Reading edition
The name was variously spelt, e.g.—
"And other trees there was mane one The Pyany, the Poplar, and the Plane."
The Squyr of Lowe Degre, 39.
"The pretie Pinke and purple Pianet."
Cutwode, Caltha Poetarum, 1599, st. 24.
"A Pyon (Pyion A.) dionia, herba est."—Catholicon Anglicum.