
          the lexicographer trace its pedigree as far as far as he pleases
 [?] having said that fucus was from the Latin fucus I think
 he may with propriety stop there of if he will fo on to say
 that fucus is from the Gr [Greek letters follow] & that from the Arabic _ &
 that from the Hebrew [Hebrew letters follow], that here he is bound to stop in all
 conscience, & leave the Rabbins to say why [Hebrew letters follow] ever was used
 to denote sea weed. Ne sutor ultra etc.


 I know it is presumption for me to offer you my
 opinions on this point but they cost you nothing except
 the ink with which they are written & even that I suspect
 may have been a present form Kent.


 I now venture some almost equally presumptuous
 remarks on individual names & for brevity's sake I
 will speak ex cathedra having concentrated all my deference
 into these two sentances, Calom agrostis -  [Greek letters follow]
 means a reed - never a palm. The word spread from Cenchrus
 frutescens to all calms. Phragmites from [Greek letters follow] growing in
 the hedge. Eleusina. Eleusis is not a name of Ceres. She has
 I suspect an epithet taken from the name of the city
 Eleusis where her games were celebrated, & where I conjecture
 this grass or some grass (I am safe at last) grew, hence called
 [two Greek words follow] Eleusis grass. Derivation: From Eleusis a city
 near Athens. Spartina from [Greek letters follow] made of the bark of
 Spanish Broom. [tina?] not from [Greek letters follow] but from [Greek letters follow]  [Lolium?] temulentum
 an [inserted: a primitive] underived word. Avena. The Latin name for
 Oat. (See bottom of last page & top of this). Danthonia. He
 who will transpose two letters & write this Danthoina
 will do nomenclature a service. Mukleubergia stands on
 rather a critical footing _ nothing but favoritism I fear can
 sustain it Rafinesquia would have been pitched from

        