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son's Glossary of Botanic Terms,* and by comparison with that 

 work have divided Fuchs's list into four groups, viz., (i) those 

 terms still in use with identical or closely related meaning; (2) 

 those in use but with changed meaning; (3) those obsolete; (4) 

 those which are not botanical terms ; and the status of each word 

 on this plan is indicated at the close of its definition in the fol- 

 lowing list. Thus it appears that of the 127 terms (exclusive 

 of synon^^ms) in Fuchs's list, 83 or 66 per cent, belong to Group i ; 

 22 or 17 per cent, to Group 2; 14 or 11 per cent, to Group 3; and 

 7 or 6 per cent to Group 4. 



The translation has been difficult, because the Latin of Fuchs's 

 time was far from classical. In at least tvvo places there are ob- 

 vious misprints. The definitions are often wordy and far from 

 clear, but I have taken no liberties with the text, my translation 

 of which is intended to render as closely as possible the original 

 work of Fuchs. 



I wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the librarian of Harvard 

 University in loaning me the copy of Fuchs's Herbal from which 

 my copy was made, and I desire also to express my thanks to Dr. 

 William Muss-Arnolt of the Boston Public Library without whose 

 generous aid my treatment of the Greek terms would have been 

 far from complete. 



An Explanation of Certain Terms Occuring Frequently 



Throughout This Work which the Inexperienced 



Reader Might be at a Loss to Understand. 



Acetabula. x\cetabula seem to have been named from acetiim, 

 although some think the word derived from accipiendo, and 

 so write acceptahulum. They are cup-shaped vessels with- 

 out wide rims, which, filled with vinegar, are set before one 

 for sauce. Thence the word has been transferred to all 

 other objects having a similar shape. First they have so 

 named the concave places in the tentacles of polyps, by 

 which this animal advances and, as if propped on these sup- 

 ports, raises itself. Then the word is transferred to the 



* Jackson, B. D., A Glossary of Botanic Terms, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadel- 

 phia, 1900. 



