INTRODUCTION. 1x1 



tayned the names of herbes in yreeke^ 

 latin^ english, cluch, frenche, and in the 

 potecaries and herbaries latin, with the 

 properties, degrees, and naturcdl places of 

 the same, gathered and made hy Willia'tn 

 Turner. London 1551, folio. The seconde 

 parte. Collen 1562. The third parte. Lon- 

 don 1568. This man above all others 

 represents the Revival of Botany for Eng- 

 land, not onlj as regards knowledge of the 

 ancients, but also as to the commencement 

 of the study of nature. He may be con- 

 sidered as the reviver of that hght which 

 in our later Lists seems so near to ex- 

 tinction. 



§ 3. THE SIGNIFICATION OF THE OLD NATIVE 

 PLANT-NAMES. TO WHAT EXTENT ARE 

 THEY CAPABLE OF IDENTIFICATION WITH 

 THE PLANTS SIGNIFIED? THREADS OF 

 EVIDENCE AVAILABLE FOR SUCH IDENTI- 

 FICATION. SOME EXAMPLES OF VERIFI- 

 CATION. 



Now we come to that part of the sub- 

 ject which will appear to the practical 



