Ixx INTEODUCTION. 



Prassion is a Thcophrastean name which 

 Sprengel identifies with Marruhium. This 

 consistency of glossing would tend to re- 

 move any doubt that the plants intended 

 were Marrubiura vulgare and Semper- 

 vivum tectorum. 



5. Testimony op modern languages. 

 This evidence is of various quality; and ac- 

 cordingly we make three sections here. 



§ I. When Ave find the Old High German 

 name agree with the Saxon for a given 

 Latin name: — thus, Millefolium, S. gear- 

 we, O.H.G. garawa, Germ. @avk. There is 

 however a weakness in all arguments from 

 the 0. II. German names, because wc do 

 not know to what extent their lists were 

 founded upon Anglo-Saxon Lists. 



§ 2. Italian and French testimony is 

 for the most part a continuation of the 

 Latin tradition. And some of the mo- 

 dern German names are also of this 

 kind. The certainty that Hibiscus raarsc 

 mealuwe is Althaja officinalis, Marsh 

 Mallow, is heightened by the fact that 

 Lonicer called this plant 3Hfcl^, and fur- 

 ther that the French word Guimauve 



