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Pages vi, vii, x, xii, 8, 332, 334, 358, 392, and 420 are blank in the original.

Ellipses in the text match the original. Ellipses in the poetry quotations are represented by a row of asterisks.

On page 432, the index entry "Butter" may have been intended to read "Butler".

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page 37: 1st Henry[original has Henrv] IV, act ii, sc. 4 (263).

Page 40: Winter's Tale, act[original has extraneous period] iv, sc. 4 (436).

Page 43: Troilus[original has Triolus] and Cressida

Page 60: garter coat of William Grey of Vitten"[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 76: "Rose of Sharon"[quotation mark missing in original] was the large

Page 86: to whom the Elder tree was considered sacred."[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 104: but[original has bnt] probably by the Romans

Page 105: 2nd Henry IV, act i,[original has period] sc. 2 (194).

Page 114: Troilus[original has Trolius] and Cressida, act ii, sc. 1 (109).

Page 163: Rots-curing hyphear, and the Mistletoe."[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 199: a.d. 1275, 4 Edw: 1—[original has extraneous quotation mark]

Page 205: quite equal to Chestnuts.[period missing in original]

Page 230: but in [original has extraneous word an] another place

Page 244: (22) Theseus.[original has Thesus]

Page 245: All's Well that Ends Well, act i[original has 1], sc. 3 (135).

Page 266: in connection with Rushes which is[original has it] not easy to understand

Page 282: ("Household Words," vol. xviii.).[closing parenthesis and period missing in original]

Page 282: as it proves so, praise it.[original has extraneous single quote]"

Page 286: (11) Polonius.[original has Polonis]

Page 292: its shadow be past away.[original has hyphen]

Page 292: the bee well knows that the darkness[original has period at the end of the line after dark and ness beginning the next line]

Page 294: (3)[number 3 and parentheses missing in original] And sweet Time true.

Page 295: "Peletyr, herbe, serpillum piretrum"[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 311: into 'low lie down,'[original has double quote]

Page 339: Sonnet[original has Ibid.] xviii.

Page 383: flower-[hyphen missing in original]de-luce

Page 414: (a Seyfe, juncus, biblus, cirpus)[closing parenthesis missing in original]

Page 424: Flower-de-luce[original has duce]

Page 431: Aconitum, 9.[original has 10]

Page 431: Bacon on Gardens, &c., 39[original has 38]

Page 431: BÖhmeria[original has BoËhmeria]

Page 431: Bretby Park, 53[original has 52]

Page 432: Cassia, 277[original has 177]

Page 432: Cedar, 51[original has 50]

Page 432: under "Chaucer's Flowers", 179[original has 171]

Page 432: Cockayne, "Leechdoms," &c., 10[original has 9]--reference to page 175 removed

Page 432: Cowley, 91, 171, 272[original has 271].

Page 432: Crow-flowers, 67.[original has 61]

Page 433: Dowden, 3[original has 2]

Page 433: Durham Mustard, 173[original has 175]

Page 433: Ebony, 82[original has 61]

Page 433: Farsing Herbs, 275[original has 216]

Page 433: Fig Mulberry, 288[original has 228]

Page 433: Flower-de-luce, 97[original has 94]

Page 433: Gerard, 5, 393[original has 394] to 418

Page 433: Glossaries, 10, 393[original has 394]

Page 434: Grindon, Leo H., 5[original has 6], 17

Page 434: Hemans, Mrs., 26[original has 24], 66.

Page 434: Hemlock, 121[original has 131]

Page 434: Herbert, G., 68, 190, 255[original has 225], 314, 357, 370.

Page 434: Horace, 90, 94, 102, 130, 152, 204, 236, 243[original has 242].

Page 435: More[original has Moore], Sir T., 257

Page 435: Neckam[original has Neekham], A., 12, 79.

Page 435: Onions, 187[original has 77, 186]

Page 435: Oxlip, 66, 192[original has 191]

Page 436: PlanchÉ[original has Planche] on fleur-de-lis, 97.

Page 436: Rice, 242[original has 243].

Page 436: "Romaunt of the Rose," 12, 27, 139, 179, 221, 238, 343[original has 243].

Page 436: Rose, 243[original has 242].

Page 436: Rousseau, 374[original has 373].

Page 436: Ruskin, 109, 165[original has 164], 166, 186, 206, 223, 292.

Page 437: Watson, Forbes, 66[original has 65], 77, 229, 273, 346.

Page 437: Wright's "Vocabularies," 10[original has 9].

Footnote [13:1] Numbers xxiv. 6;[original has colon]

Footnote [169:1] the punning motto "[original has single quote]Memento Mori."





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