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I have been very fortunate in having the cooperation of Prof. 

 Adolph B. Benson, latest translator of Kalm's v^orks and Head of 

 the Department of Germanic Languages of Yale University, in 

 correcting the manuscript and proof with respect to the German 

 and Swedish names and in furnishing modern equivalents of those 

 in the latter language. With equal kindness Dr. Raymond Kennedy, 

 Assistant Professor of Sociology, in the same school, has corrected 

 the Dutch names. For this aid the writer is most appreciative. Some 

 of Professor Benson's remarks are well worth quoting for the in- 

 formation of those who may make use of this glossary. "Modern 

 Swedish," he writes, "uses hyphens very sparingly, if at all ; there is 

 no 'w' except in a few proper and foreign names, and 'f and 'fv' 

 have become 'v' in most cases except at the beginning of words. 

 Tree terms ending in tra in Kalm would now be trad. Tra in modern 

 Swedish means wood, not tree. . . . 



"One reason probably for Kalm's spelling of plant-names 

 was the fact that Sweden had no terms for some of these plants 

 and Kalm made them up, or he followed directly a foreign source, 

 as ulm from the Latin ulmus or German ulme. Today the Swedish 

 for elm is aim." 



The works consulted in the preparation of this list of plant 

 names are : 



En Resa til Norra America. By Pehr Kalm, 3 vols., Stockholm, 1753-1761. 



Resa till Norra Amerika. By Pehr Kalm, Part 4, Helsingfors, 1929. Preced- 

 ing three parts not available in Washington. 



Des Herren Peter Kalm . . . beschreibung der reise . . . nach dem Nord- 

 lichen Amerika, etc. 3 vols., Gottingen, 1754-1764. Translation by Johann 

 Andreas Murray. 



Travels into North America, etc. 3 vols., Warrington, 1770-1771. By Peter 

 Kalm. Translated by John Reinhold Forster. 



Reis door Noord Amerika, gedaen door den Heer Pieter Kalm, 2 vols., 

 Utrecht, 1772. 



Histoire naturelle et politique de la Pensylvanie, etc. By Jacques P. R. 

 de Surgy. Paris, 1768. 



Voyage de Kalm en Amerique. 2 vols., Montreal, 1880. Translation by L. W. 

 Marchand. 



Peter Kalm's Travels in North America. 2 vols., New York, 1937. Transla- 

 tion by Adolph B. Benson. 



Systematic List of Names 



POLYPODIACEAE 



Polypodium vulgare L. — Engelfusz. 



Adiantum pedatiim L. — Herba capillaris (Canada); frauenhaar; maagden- 



haar, Amerikaansche herba capillaris; capillaire du Canada; maidenhair 



(by the English in the colonies). 



