Author: James BrittenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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A Dictionary of English Plant-names
Author: James BrittenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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A Dictionary of American Plant Names (Classic Reprint)
Author: Willard Nelson ClutePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527733862
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Excerpt from A Dictionary of American Plant Names The book naturally divides into two parts, the first consisting of the vernacular names arranged under their proper genus and species, and the second a cross referenced index to the first list. The genera in each family and the species in each genus are arranged alphabetically, but in an endeavor to indicate the best known vernacular name as well as to distinguish those that are obsolete or misapplied it was found impracticable to arrange the names under each species alphabetically. The plan has been to print the most commonly used name in small capitals, while the oth ers, in ordinary type, follow somewhat the order of their importance. In the rare cases in which a given plant is recognized by a different name in different parts of its range, both names are printed in small capitals. It has often been a matter of nice distinc tion to decide which of two names is more commonly used. Here the author has been obliged to rely on his own judgment. He has often followed the usage of botanical manuals but often, also, he has used names which in his experience appear to have a wider circulation. Ln auv case. The next name that might be regarded as entitled to first place follows immediately after the other, so that both will be found together. Obsolete names are set off from the others by a dash and those regarded as misapplied are placed in paren thesis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
English Plant Names
Author: John EarlePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331943167
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Excerpt from English Plant Names: From the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century Of the manifold attractions in the Saxon Vocabularies, nothing has charmed me more than the native Plant-names, which have there been preserved in the most primitive form extant. For many winters these lists were to me as a kind of winter-garden, wherein I could botanize at the fireside and look at familiar plants through the eyes of remote ancestors. Wishing to impart this pure and exquisite pleasure to some friends of mine and friends of Saxon studies, I printed the following lists from the editions in the readiest manner without any idea of making a book. I made no revision of the texts, excepting a manuscript in the library of St. John's College, Oxford, which, through the kindness of the President, I collated with No. V. After the lists were thus hastily printed, I was encouraged to add indices and an introduction. The indices will facilitate such a comparison of the lists as will often enable readers to correct scribal errors for themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Names of Herbes (Classic Reprint)
Author: William TurnerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332242224
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Excerpt from The Names of Herbes It is unnecessary to enter into any account of the life and works of William 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 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 becoming prominent, and went through a series of vicissitudes which are duly chronicled by Mr. Jackson. He was a prolific writer, many of his works being directed against the Catholic Church, and ex hibiting the heated controversial tone characteristic of the period in which he lived. Like many other controversialists, he was not always very particular as to the acorn-soy of his accusations - an example of this will be found in the note upon Palm in the Dictionary of English plant-james. He died in 1568. I may perhaps be allowed to draw attention to the fact that the house of Syon, where the Names of Herbes was prepared, is within a mile of the place where this Preface is written; and that the Protestant author of 1548 is introduced to the reading public by a Catholic editor in 1882. Thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Dictionary of English Names of Plants Applied in England and Among English-Speaking People to Cultivated and Wild Plants, Trees and Shrubs (Classic Reprint)
Author: William MillerPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267642120
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Excerpt from A Dictionary of English Names of Plants Applied in England and Among English-Speaking People to Cultivated and Wild Plants, Trees and Shrubs It is an undeniable fact that the vast majority of people of all classes who take an interest in horticultural pursuits consists of those who, jnever having received any classical or botanical training, find it difficult to learn and remember, and impossible to understand, the Latin or scientific names by which plants are spoken of and described by botanists. These names, however useful and even necessary they may be as technical terms to the systematic botanist, become a senseless jargon in the vain attempt to fix them amongst our household words, and most of us are keenly alive to the inconsistency of employing words from a foreign and even dead language to name such familiar everyday objects as the flowers and shrubs which are grown in our gardens and woods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Dictionary of English Plant-names
Author: James BrittenPlant Names (Classic Reprint)
Author: T. S. LindsayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484202244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Excerpt from Plant Names IT is very unlikely that all the derivations given in this book are correct, and learned readers must form their own judgment in each case. For even the soundest etymologists resort to conjecture sometimes, and there is no branch of learning in which it is more useful. I can only say that I consulted the best authorities, and that when a derivation seemed doubtful I said so. But a critic will find plenty of marks at which to have a shot, and when the attempt has been made to explain over a thousand names there is sure to be difference of Opinion about some, probably many, of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dictionary of Botanical Equivalents
Author: Ernst ArtschwagerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332371419
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Excerpt from Dictionary of Botanical Equivalents: French-English, German-English Readers of foreign botanical literature have for a long time felt the need of an accurate translation of technical terms which are not commonly found in our dictionaries. In the following compilation the editors have attempted to supply this need. The foundation of the work rests on Schneider's Illustriertes Handworterbuch der Botanik. Many terms, however, have been taken from other dictionaries, as well as textbooks and current literature. French and German terms of Latin or Greek origin have been omitted whenever the English equivalent would practically have been only a repetition. For such terms as are included in this dictionary the exact English equivalents have been sought. In numerous instances, however, the lack of such has made it necessary to furnish an explanation of the foreign term rather than a translation. The list of plant names includes important economic plants, farm weeds, and the Latin equivalents for the larger plant groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Dictionary of English Plant Names (and Some Products of Plants)
Author: Geoffrey GrigsonPublisher: Lane, Allen
ISBN: 9780713904420
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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A Dictionary of English Plant-Names; Volume 10
Author: James BrittenPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376505955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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