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Excerpt from A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent
In the preface to the first edition of this Glossary I gave the reasons which induced me to undertake it, and the fact that the impression was exhausted some time ago, is a gratifying confirmation of those reasons. The delay in preparing this second edition has been entirely due to pressure of occupation. The "Additions" of the edition of 1900 are now combined with the terms recently published in one alphabet, for the earlier sheets being stereotyped prevented their incorporation.
One special feature of the recent additions is that of the phyto-geographic terms coined by Mr F. E. Clements, and published in Engler's "Botanische Jahrbucher," xxxi. (1902), Beibl. No. 70, and since added to in a volume of the Nebraska University, "Studies in the Vegetation of the State," iii. (1904). I felt bound to give these in their entirety, though in many cases I could only copy the definitions given by the author, e.g., the use of "creek" in the American sense, and in a few cases classical authority and grammar have been ignored. The special terms contrived for American conditions have not been transferred to these pages, and those who require to know the meaning of such compounds as "Carex-Sieversia-Polygonum-coryphium," with its vernacular equivalent "The Sedge-smartweed Alpine meadow formation," are referred to the work above quoted. In the "Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique," Ser. VIII. xiv. (1901), 213-390, will be found another elaborate series of terms, which have not yet made their appearance in English books, and are consequently not embodied in the following pages.
The task of selecting what terms should be included in any branch of science offers many difficulties: in the case of botany, it is closely linked on with zoology and general biology, with geology as regards fossil plants, with pharmacy, chemistry, and the cultivation of plants in the garden or the field.
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