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rind, rind, cortex. 



saBd, seed, semen : lia ssed linseed. 



slan, sloes, rnoros. 



spaec, stick, framen. 



sprauta, sprout, sirculus vel virgultum i8, 



stirps 20. 

 stela, stem, cauliculus : German (Stiel. 

 telgra, scrub, virgultum. 

 t-wrig, twig, ramus. 

 })orn, thorn, sjpina. 

 wasstm, fruit, fructus. 

 wyrtruma, root, radix. 



§ 5. ON THE NEGLECT OF THE VERNACULAR 

 NAMES. CONCLUSION. 



The native names have a charm which 

 it is easier to feel than to describe or 

 account for. It is like the charm which 

 wild flowers have, as against the flowers of 

 horticulture. It is their wildness^ their 

 homeliness, their artless simpHcity. But 

 this, in the case of the names, is not all. 

 It is, further, that they are associated, 

 as only vernacular words can be asso- 

 ciated, with some of our simplest and 

 earliest pleasures. These vernacular names 

 recall inestimable memories; the Latin 



