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CONTENTS ^^-^i^c/c^ 



Introduction I page 



§ I. The history of plant-names from Theo- 



phrastus to the modern system of nor WaK-^p^ 

 menclature ...... ix 



§ 2. The place of these Lists in the run of that 



history xlviii 



§ 3. The signification of the old native plant- 

 names, &c. ..... Ixi 



§ 4. G-rammatical elements of English plant- 

 names Ixxx 



§ 5. On the neglect of the vernacular names xcvii 



I. Liber Medicinalis i 



From a Translation of Apuleius De Virtuti- 



bus Herbarum. 



II. From ^Ifric's Vocabulary, Tenth Century. 



Nomina Herbarum 11 



Nomina Arborum 17 



III. From a Vocabulary of the Tenth or 



Eleventh Century, 

 Incipit de Lignis ..... 21 

 De Herbis Terr^ 24 



IV. From a Vocabulary in the Eoyal Library, 



Brussels, of the Eleventh Century. 

 Nomina Herbarum, Gr^ce et Latine . 26 



