Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES`...compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship...' NOTES AND QUERIES The first reference work on the botanical language of the English middle ages to appear in print. Covering approximately 1800 names, applied to some six hundred species, and including over five hundred names not recorded in the OED, it is an indispensable reference work and a comprehensive guide to the bibliography of the subject. Lexicologists will find a wealth of new material. PW book plate inside front cover. Letter written to T W Hunt inside front cover