Pimento
Jamaica pepper, the dried berry of a West Indian tree-the Eugenia pimento. It also bears the honorary name of Allspice, as combining within itself the flavours of clove, cinnamon and nutmeg.
PIMPERNEL deserves a word in order to guard against a mistake which may be serious. The flower known by this name in England is a rank poison. It is that named in Tennyson's famous song :- The slender acacia would not shake One long milk-bloom on the tree; The white lake blossom fell into the lake As the pimpernel dozed on the lea: that is, with closed flowers. Now Englishmen returning from France, and loud in their praises of a French salad, tell us that in order to make this salad in perfection it ought to be garnished with four herbs minced: tarragon, chervil, chives, and pimpernel. Mark well, and let the gardener and the cook take heed that this pimpernel is not pimpernel in England, but burnet.