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tion, that the word here is not the same as that on 

 p. 14, or cropleac, p. 24; but belonging to the verb 

 creopan, to creep ; and that it refers to the running 

 growth, just like Vermicularis. 



1. xo. This means, Althaea est malva silvestris. See 

 p. 49. 



P. 62, 1. I, a pese. Here we have pese as a word 

 of singular number; and this was its original con- 

 dition, which it took fi-om the French peii, pots; Latin 

 pisum. But the s of the stem soon came to be re- 

 garded as a sign of plural number, and so we see it 

 p. 65, benys and pese. When pese was singular, it 

 made its plural in -en, pesen, peason. But when pese 

 came to count as plural, it wanted a form for the 

 singular number, and the new form pea sprung up to 

 meet this requirement. 



P. 63, 1. 5. salgea. For salvia, having contracted 

 the ff from the French fonn suuge. The same remark 

 applies to salgia, p. 56. 



1. 24. Uec ebula, a walle-wurte. These glossaries 

 are constant in identifying the wal ivyrt or iveal wyrt 

 with Sambucus Ebulus. But in the continental 

 dialects the name Walliourz, Wellemcurz, Danish vallr 

 ort is according to Grassmann's authorities the name 

 for Symphytum, and it is explained by Adelung and 

 E. Meyer by reference to English well ; Symphytum 

 officinale is also called Beinwell, as if bone-healer. But 

 for this, I should not have hesitated to translate weal 

 wyrt as strange or foreign herb. 



P. 64, 1. 7. ffallax. A scribe's error for seandax, 



PP- 51.57- 



1. 12. cirpus, i.e. scirpus. The plant mainly in- 

 tended is the Bull-rush, Scirpus lacustris of Linnaeus. 

 Also written Sirpus, Scirpus, Scirpio. 



1. ic). seniglossa. For Cynoglossum, Hound's tongue. 



P. 65, 1. 10. Uec locusta, a sokyl-blome. This 



