INTRODUCTION. Ixi 



tayned the names of herbes in greeke, 

 latin, english, duch, frenche, and in the 

 potecaries and herbaries latin, with the 

 properties, degrees, and naturall places of 

 the same, gathered and made by William 

 Turner. London 1551, folio. The seconde 

 parte. Collen 1563. The third parte. Lon- 

 don 1 568. This man above all others 

 represents the Revival of Botany for Eng- 

 land, not only 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 light which 

 in our later Lists seems so near to ex- 

 tinction. 



3. THE SIGNIFICATION OP THE OLD NATIVE 

 PLANT-NAMES. TO WHAT EXTENT AB-E 

 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 



