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publication I determined to secure, if possible, 
the interest and help of a few of the best 
botanists I knew, and of experts in this 
branch of folk-speech. The response was 
most encouraging ; I received ready promises of 
help from everyone whom I approached, and I 
am more than grateful for the generous way in 
which those promises have been fulfilled. I feel 
particularly indebted to the following ladies and 
gentlemen for the kind and valuable help they 
have been good enough to give me in the final 
preparation of the list for publication :— 
Mr. James Britten, K.C.S.G., F.L.S., Brentford, 
Editor of ‘‘ The Journal of Botany,” and Joint 
Compiler with Mr. R. Holland of the “‘ Dictionary 
of English Plant Names.” 
Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., 
D.Sc., Ph.D., Clevedon. 
Dr. Harold Downes, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., 
Ilminster. 
Dr. R. C. Kaight, D.Se., D.1.C., Imperial 
College, South Kensington. 
Mr. W. D. Miller, Cheddoun, Taunton. 
Mr. C. T. Onions, Old Ashmolean, Oxford, 
one of the Editors of the ‘‘ Oxford Eaglish 
Dictionary.” 
Miss Ida M. Roper, F.L.S., Bristol. 
Dr. W. Watson, D.&c., A.L.S., Tauaton School. 
IT am also grateful to Miss M. J. Shute (late of 
Oare), Mr. F. W. Mathews (Bradford-on-Tone), 
and Mr. W. S. Price (Wellington) for a consider- 
able amount f help in this direction, particularly 
in connection with names used in their Own 
districts. 
All these have done me the favour of 
going carefully through advance proofs of my 
list as I have put it into type, and they have. 
not only made many useful and interesting 
additions to it, but they have also corrested 
many errors which, but for their kind services, 
I should either have made or allowed to pass un- 
detected. 
T wish to make it quite clear that those 
who have kindly helped me in this direction must 
not be considered ia any way responsible for any 
faults which may be found in the list as 
I have printed it. Most of them have been good 
enough on more than one occasion to make 
valaable suggestions which I have not seen my 
way to adopt, and some of them have criticised 
quite frankly both my method of arrangement 
and the inclusion of some of the names, particu- 
larly of those which I have inserted as coming 
only from a scprool-boy or school-girl in some 
village. In this matter I have followed through- 
out the policy which I laid dowa in my preface, 
