CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION PAGE 



i. The history of plant-names from Theo- 

 phrastus to the modern system of no- 

 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. Grammatical 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 JElfric's Vocabulary, Tenth Century. 

 NOMINA HERBARUM . - : . . . 1 1 

 NOMINA ARBORUM 17 



III. From a Vocabulary of the Tenth or 



Eleventh Century. 

 INCIPIT DE LIGNIS . . ... .21 



DE HERBIS TERR^B 24 



IV. From a Vocabulary in the Royal Library, 



Brussels, of the Eleventh Century. 

 NOMINA HERBARUM, GREECE ET LATINE . 26 



