INTRODUCTION. XCV 



The English holly is in these Lists 

 called holen. The O. H. G. form is hulis, 

 which has passed into French and has be- 

 come houx. In Chaucer the holly is called 

 hulfeere. From these forms we collect a 

 root hoi. Grassmann suggests that this is 

 of one root with hol-t, German fyol^ wood, 

 and that the idea is firmness, stiffness, 

 tenacity, which is expressed in the verb 

 to hold. 



The general result of a philological 

 study of plant-names is, that they are 

 very ancient, and that there has been a 

 vast amount of ramification from a very 

 small number of germs ; and that in this 

 field we have a remarkable exhibition of 

 that faculty of differentiation which has 

 been one of the most prolific sources of the 

 copiousness of Language. 



Some A. S. Names for Parts of Plants, 

 which are mostly common to many 

 Plants. 



secern, acorn, < 



berge, berry : uva winberge, fraga streow 



berige, blace berian blackberries, hynd 



berige? raspberries. 



