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Sfnapi senap mustard 



Ulmus ulm treow elm 



TJnio yne leac onion 



Vinea win treow vine. 



Here I cannot omit to notice that Grass- 

 mann confidently pronounces the German 

 ttlme, Elm, to be an original German word 

 etn uralteS 5)eutfd&e$ 28ort, not derived 

 from, but ranging abreast of, the Latin 

 Ulmus. 



In the case of Buxus box, not only is 

 the Saxon form the same as ours, which 

 would not signify much, because there is 

 not room for more than one intermediate 

 step, namely bux ;. but it is a significant 

 fact that already in the Saxon Gospels it 

 is used for a salve box seo hsefde box 

 mid deorwyrSre sealfe, she had a box 

 with precious salve. 



From a comparison of the forms in the 

 above List, it appears certain that the 

 Saxonised Latin names had been in use 

 for many generations, and that from a 

 very early period there had been a com^ 

 merce with Roman botany. 



