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Turner often includes several diflterent plants under the same head- 

 ing ; but I have thought this plan the easiest for facilitating refer- 

 ence. A few blanks will be found in the second column; they 

 indicate that I have been unable to ascertain satisfactorily the modern 

 name of the plants to which Turner alludes. The third part is an 

 index, similar to that in the " Dictionary of English Plant-Names," 

 in which the modern Latin names of the plants are given in alpha- 

 betical order, followed by the various EngUsh ones by which they 

 are mentioned in the body of the work. In this way I hope I have 

 rendered the information contained in the "Names of Herbes" 

 available for the use of all who may wish to obtain it. 



Many dialectal names find a place in the work : e. g. for 

 Northumberland, Speregrass (p. 24), Lucken gollande (p. 26), New 

 Chapel flower (p. 58), Eldens (p. 61), and Eedco (p. 78); for 

 Durham, Speknel (p. 53) ; for Yorkshire, Cudweed (p. 25) ; for the 

 North Bracon (p. 38), and Crawtees (p. 43) ; and for Cambridge- 

 shire, "Whin (p. 73), and Waybent (p. 43). I have not attempted 

 to arrange or correct the French and German names ; but in the 

 English Index I have taken some trouble to spell both Turner's 

 English and Latin titles as he himself writes them. 



That the work is useful in fixing the date of the introduction of 

 certain plants to English gardens is clear, from the fact that it stands 

 at the head of the books cited by Alton in the " Hortus Kewensis " 

 (ed. ii. , p. x). Many British plants also date their record as natives 

 of this country from this little volume. From these records, as well 

 as from the names which he gives as then in actual use, we can 

 trace Turner's travels in various parts of England, as well as on the 

 continent. 



It is unnecessary to enter into any account of the life and works 

 of WiUiam Turner, as a full account of both will be found in 

 Mr. B. D. Jackson's preface to his reprint (issued in 1877) of the 

 " Libellus " — Turner's first work ; — as well as in Trimen and Dyer's 

 "Flora of Middlesex" (published in 1869), pp. 364—369. He was 

 born at Morpeth in Northumberland between 1510 and 1515, went 

 to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and became Fellow of that College in 

 1531. He afterwards took up the religious views which were then 



