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A GLOSSAET OF DEVONSHIRE PLANT NAMES. BT THE REV. HILDBBIO FRIEND. (R«aa at Crediton, July, 1882.) I HAD the honour and pleasure a year ago of submitting to the Devonshire Association a few "Notes on Some Devon- shire Plant Names/' when I promised to continue my study of the subject) and submit, at some future date, such results as I might be able to arrive at in connexion therewith. Since that time I have made flower-lore my special study, and in so doing have given particular attention to the field which lay nearest at hand. The consequence has been that I have greatly enlarged my list of local plant names ; while I have also accumulated a larjf^e amount of information respecting the traditions, superstitions, and customs of the people in reference to plants and flowers. I had fully intended to have supplemented this essay with some notes on Devonshire Flower-Lore," but found that the collection and arrangement of such a long list of names as that which I have been enabled here to bring together took up all the spare time I had at my disposal, and prevented me entering for the present on this interesting study. I have meanwhile added a few notes towards a bibliography of the subject^ which I hope I may be able to deal with more thoroughly at another time. I do not claim to have compiled a glossary of the whole of Devonshire plant-names, for new names come to hand almost daily ; bnt^ at any rate, the list is laiger than any that has ever been compiled before, so far as I am aware. It may be well perhaps to give I. Some Bibliographical Notes. Works treating exclusively or particularly of plant-names may be reckoned on one's fingers. The first book deserving B