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1 have myself lived for over 35 years within a 
mile of the Dorset border, but more than 50 
miles away from Minehead or Portishead in my 
own county, and the names given by the Rev. 
Wm. Barnes and Mr. J. C. Mansetl-Pleydell and 
others in Dorset lists are much more familiar 
to me and to many other peopie in South and 
East Somerset than many of the names given by 
Mr. F. T. Elworthy in his masterly ‘“* Word-book 
of West Somerset.” 
Readers who are in any way interested in these 
local flower names are strongly cdvised to cut 
out the columns week by week as they appear 
in the paper and to preserve them for future 
reference. The Glossary which commences this 
week will extend over several months, and as 
soon as it is complete I hope to publish an Index 
to it in which all the scientific names quoted in 
the Glossary will be arranged in alphabetical 
order. Opposite each scientific name will be given 
the whole of the local names for that particular 
plant which have appeared in the Glossary, and 
this arrangement should prove both interesting 
and helpful to the learner and the expert alike. 
For instance, areader knows a flower by no other 
name than ‘‘ Adam and Eve.”’ A reference to 
the Glossary will show him that this name is 
given to five different plants, amongst them being 
Arum maculatum and Orchis mascula. If he turns 
to the Index he wil! find under the heading Arum 
maculatum probably at least 50 or 60 other local 
names for this one plant, and by going back to 
as many as he pleases of these other local names 
in the Glossary he will learn much more about 
the plant to which they are applied. Similarly 
under the heading Orchis mascula he would pro- 
bably find a dozen local names given for this 
plant, and by referring to these names in the 
Glossary he would acquire additional information. 
Acting upon the advice of several of the best 
known botanists in the county, I have adopted 
as my standard for the scientific names of our 
British wild flowers the latest (10th) edition of 
the London Catalogue of British Plants (1908), 
which I have followed as closely as possible. 
Before the type is distributed a limited number 
of reprints will be made, and as soon as publica- 
tion is complete in the columns of the newspaper, 
the Proprietors, I hope, will issue the full Glossary 
and Index in book form at a price not exceeding 
5s, and possibly less. May I add that in any case 
I myself shall not profit by it in any way. The 
work I have done in this connection has been a 
labour of love for which I have not received and 
do not wish to receive any reward whatever 
beyond the satisfaction of having done this little 
for my native county in the hope of interesting 
other Somerset people in its beautiful flowers 
and in its folk-names for them. So far as the 
Company are concerned, the cost of collecting 
and publishing this vast amount of material 
