PREFACE 



used to denote colour were found to be so discordant that I was 

 compelled to make a special study of that department, and the 

 result will be found in the " Journal of Botany," xxxvii. (1899), 

 97-105. 



I have carefully considered the criticisms of this work which 

 have come under my notice, and have adopted all those sugges- 

 tions which could be taken up, so far as they did not contradict 

 the plan on which this volume was drawn ; some criticisms were 

 mutually destructive, others were due to insufficient knowledge 

 of the original definitions on the part of the critic, whilst others 

 advocated radical changes, which would have made this, not my 

 book, but some other person's product. I have tried to furnish 

 the terms in use in various periods, so that a paper or book of 

 any period can be read, and its special expressions understood ; 

 to cut down the volume would have been therefore unwise, and 

 the attempt would have failed to gain the approval of competent 

 judges, as no two teachers would have agreed upon the exclusion 

 of given terms. In more than one case, an obsolete term has 

 been lately revived. 



In issuing a new edition of this book, I should have much 

 preferred to blend old and new into one alphabet; but the 

 increased cost of type-setting has made that impracticable from 

 the publishing point of view, and has necessitated a reprint of 

 the pages here numbered 1 to 414, by photo-zincography. 



The total numbers included in this Glossary now amount to 

 nearly 25,000, and if the various meanings were added, they 

 would amount to about 1400 more. The derivations have been 

 carefully checked, but as this book has no pretension to be a 

 philological work, the history of the word is not attempted ; 

 thus in " etiolate " I have contented myself with giving the 

 proximate derivation, whilst the great Oxford dictionary cites 

 a host of intermediate forms deduced from stipella. The meaning 

 appended to the roots is natiurally a rough one, for to render 

 adequately all that may be conveyed by many of the roots is 

 manifestly impossible when a single word must serve. The 

 accent has been added in accordance with the best discoverable 

 usage; where pronunciation varies, I have tried to follow the 



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