CONTENTS 



Introduction page 



§ I. The history of plant-names from Theo- 

 phrastus to the modern system of no- 

 menclature . . . . . . ix 



§ 2. The place of these Lists in the run of that 



history xlviii 



§ 3. The signification of the old native plant- 

 names, &c. ..... Ixi 



§ 4. Grammatical elements of English plant- 

 names Ixxx 



§ 5. On the neglect of the vernacular names xcvii 



I. Liber MEDiciii^Lis i 



From a Translation of Apuleius De Virtuti- 



bus Herbarum. 



II. From JElfric's Vocabulary, Tenth Century. 



Nomina Herbarum 11 



Nomina Arborum 17 



III. From a Vocabulary of the Tenth or 



Eleventh Century. 



Incipit de Lignis '21 



De Herbis Terr^ 24 



IV. From a Vocabulary in the Royal Library, 



Brussels, of the Eleventh Century. 

 Nomina Herbarum, Gr^ce et Latine . 26 



