PREFACE 



IN the preface to the first edition of this Glossary I gave the 

 reasons which induced me to undertake it, and the fact that 

 the impression was exhausted some time ago, is a gratifying 

 confirmation of those reasons. The delay in preparing this second 

 edition has been entirely due to pressure of occupation. The 

 "Additions" of the edition of 1900 are now combined with the 

 terms recently published in one alphabet, for the earlier sheets 

 being stereotyped prevented their incorporation. 



One special feature of the recent additions is that of the phy to- 

 geographic terms coined by Mr F. E. Clements, and published in 

 Engler's "Botanische Jahrbiicher," xxxi. (1902), Beibl. No. 70, and 

 since added to in a volume of the Nebraska University, " Studies in 

 the Vegetation of the State," iii. (1904). I felt bound to give these 

 in their entirety, though in many cases I could only copy the defini- 

 tions given by the author, e.g., the use of " creek " in the American 

 sense, and in a few cases classical authority and grammar have been 

 ignored. The special terms contrived for American conditions have 

 not been transferred to these pages, and those who require to know 

 the meaning of such compounds as " Carex-Sieversia-Polygonum- 

 coryphium," with its vernacular equivalent " The Sedge-smar tweed 

 Alpine meadow formation," are referred to the work above quoted. 

 In the " Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique," Ser. VIII. xiv. 

 (1901), 213-390, will be found another elaborate series of terms, 

 which have not yet made their appearance in English books, and 

 are consequently not embodied in the following pages. 



The task of selecting what terms should be included in any 

 branch of science offers many difficulties : in the case of botany, 

 it is closely linked on with zoology and general biology, with 

 geology as regards fossil plants, with pharmacy, chemistry, and 

 the cultivation of plants in the garden or the field. How far it 

 is advisable to include terms from those overlapping sciences 



