VI PBXFACE. the public. Had I been able to remain in Devonshiie another year or two, I have no doubt the glossary wotQd have been much enlarged ; but as there is no prospect of my resuming the study for some years to Some in the south of England, I have begun to collect plant names in the counties of Northampton, Bucks, and Oxon. I am already in posses- sion of some very valuable names which do not appear in any glossary, and hope to be able to supplement my present work with another publication in the English Dialect Society Series in the course of one or two more years. The present work was read in the first instance before the members of the Devonshire Association for the Advance- ment of Science, Literature, and Art, from whose volume of Transactions for the year it has, by an arrangement with the Council of the Association, been reprinted as an addition to the publications of the English Dialect Society. HiLDEBic Friend. Bracklsy, Nortramptonshirb, Octob&Ty 1882.
