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will greatly exceed any sum they may hope to 
receive from the sale of the book, and I trust, 
therefore, that any reader who is able to add 
in any way to the completeness or correctness 
of this list will not refrain from doing so through 
fear that by so doing he may be contributing to 
the Proprietors’ or to my own gain. 
** For Somerset’s sake ’’ I appeal to readers who 
are interested in this subject to be good enough to 
send me from time to time additions, corrections, 
or suggestions which may occur to them. The 
list I am hoping to print will be very far from 
being a perfect list, and I claim for it nothing 
more than that it is a contribution towards a 
more worthy Glossary for our county, which 
I hope may some day be compiled by an abler 
man, with a wider knowledge of the subject and 
other sources of information besides those upon 
which I have been able to draw. But Somerset 
is a large county, and (as my list shows) these 
local names differ very widely in different parts 
of it, and it is impossible for any one man to com- 
pile a complete list without generous help from 
correspondents in every corner in the county. 
I claim to have made my contribution towards 
the formation of a Somerset Glossary of plant 
names, and I hope that many of our readers who 
take any interest in the subject—and who amongst 
them.does not ?—will assist in the work by making 
such additions as they may be able. 
MAy 2lst, 1921. 
A. S. MACMILLAN. 
