xx INTRODUCTION. 



Prassion is a Theophrastean name which 

 Sprengel identifies with Marrubium. This 

 consistency of glossing would tend to re- 

 move any doubt that the plants intended 

 were Marrubium vulgare and Semper - 

 vivum tectorum. 



5. TESTIMONY OF MODERN LANGUAGES. 

 This evidence is of various quality; and ac- 

 cordingly we make three sections here. 



i . When we 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, atfce. There is 

 however a weakness in all arguments from 

 the 0. H. German names, because we 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 marsc 

 mealuwe is Altha?a officinalis, Marsh 

 Mallow, is heightened by the fact that 

 Lonicer called this plant 3btfdj, and fur- 

 ther that the French word Guimauve 



