Some Local Names of Plants — VII* 



W. L. McAtee 



At intervals, which I regret to note have been steadily increas- 

 ing in length, I have made six contributions in Torreya toward a 

 glossary of American plant names. Taste, and the opportunity 

 afforded by search for vernacular appellations of birds, have played 

 a part in the writer's dealing with plant cognomens but beyond 

 those factors has been a hope that the recording of source material 

 might be useful to those who are called upon to select standard 

 terms for plants. It is my conviction that such selections should 

 be based, so far as possible, on usage and it has been my aim to 

 contribute toward a record of usage. 



The present collection, like all the others in the series, contains 

 names gleaned in the field by the writer and by friends and corre- 

 spondents. In addition, there are appellations found in the course 

 of reading articles and books, both old and new. This installment 

 may be considered as including all noteworthy plant names from 

 the periodical Dialect Notes from Volume 1, 1890 to date, and from 

 the works recorded in the accompanying list of literature cited. 

 To reduce the number of cognomens listed, all included with the 

 same application in Lyons' "Plant Names, Scientific and Popular," 

 1907, and in the "Illustrated Flora of the Northern States and 

 Canada," by Britton and Brown, 1936 (and, of course, in previous 

 numbers of this series), have been omitted. 



Literature Cited 



Bentley, Harold W. 1932. A dictionary of Spanish terms in English, with 



special reference to the American Southwest. Columbia University Press, 



x+243 pp. 

 Clapin, Sylva. 1907 (?). A new dictionary of Americanisms, being a glossary 



of words supposed to be peculiar to the United States and the Dominion of 



Canada. New York, xv+581 pp. 

 De Vere, M. Scheie. 1872. Americanisms. The English of the New World. 



685 pp. 

 Doughty, J., and Doughty, T. 1830-1833. The Cabinet of Natural History 



and American Rural Sports, 2 Vols. Philadelphia. 

 Green, Bennett W. 1912. Word-book of Virginia Folk-Speech. Richmond, 



530 pp. 



* All of this series have been published in Torreya, No. 1 in A^ol. 13 : 225- 

 236, 1913; No. 2, 16:235-242, 1916; No. 3, 20: 17-27, 1920; No. 4, 26 : 1-10, 

 1926; No. 5, 33 : 81-86, 1933; and No. 6, 37 : 91-103, 1937. 



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