xiy INTRODUCTION 



form = Camelli) , the seventeenth century Moravian 

 traveller, should have the e pronounced short 

 (Cam-eT-li-a) and not long (Cam-el-'li-a) as so 

 many careless persons are in the habit of doing. 

 Pronounced otherwise, the connection between the 

 man and the plant or animal is almost entirely 

 obliterated and one of the chief purposes of giving 

 the name is defeated. 



Sometimes words have passed over into the 

 English language and in so doing have not only 

 had their accent shifted and the sounds of their 

 vowels changed, but they have also had the spell- 

 ing slightly altered. Examples of such words are 

 the Greek dnem-o'-ne (avenuvr)) which in English 

 appears as the plant name anem-o-ne, and the 

 Latin or-a' ' -tor becomes in English or'-d-tor. From 

 the Latin fd-li-ns, leaf, we have the English words 

 fo'-li-dge and fo'-li-o. Strange indeed, and rightly 

 so, it now would sound, to hear someone speak of 

 fo'-li-dge or of a fo'-li-o. The long o in foliage comes 

 to us through French. 



