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tion, that the word here is not the same as that on 

 p. 14, or cropleac, p. 24; but belonging to the verb 

 creopan, to creep ; and that it refers to the running 

 growth, just like Vermicularis. 



1. 10. This means, Althaea est malva silvestris. See 

 p. 49. 



P. 62, 1. i, a pese. Here we have pese as a word 

 of singular number; and this was its original con- 

 dition, which it took from the French pels, pois; Latin 

 pis urn. But the s of the stem soon came to be re- 

 garded as a sign of plural number, and so we see it 

 p. 65, benys and pese. When pese was singular, it 

 made its plural in -en, pesen, peason. But when pese 

 came to count as plural, it wanted a form for the 

 singular number, and the new form pea sprung up to 

 meet this requirement. 



P. 63, 1. 5. salgea. For salvia, having contracted 

 the g from the French form sauge. The same remark 

 applies to salgia, p. 56. 



1. 24. Hec ebula, a walle-wurte. These glossaries 

 are constant in identifying the walivyrt or weal wyrt 

 with Sambucus Ebulus. But in the continental 

 dialects the name Walhvurz, Wellenwurz, Danish vall- 

 ort is according to Grassmann's authorities the name 

 for Symphytum, and it is explained by Adelung and 

 E. Meyer by reference to English icell ; Symphytum 

 officinale is also called Beinwell, as if bone-healer. But 

 for this, I should not have hesitated to translate weal 

 wyrt as strange or foreign herb. 



P. 64, 1. 7. ffallax. A scribe's error for scandax, 



PP- 5i 57- 



1. 12. cirpus, i.e. scirpus. The plant mainly in- 

 tended is the Bull-rush, Scirpus lacustris of Linnaeus. 

 Also written Sirpus, Scirpus, Scirpio. 



1. 19. seniglossa. For Cynoglossum, Hound's tongue. 



P. 65, 1. 10. Hec locusta, a sokyl-blome. This 



