Copy 1, Volume 1

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • James Edward Smith
Date:
1824-1836
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Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is preferable to glabrous, though the latter is near- er the Latin; while even expresses a freedom from all inequality. The former answers exactly to the Latin g/ader, the latter to levis. Heartshaped is full as intelligible as cordate; furrowed is surely pre- ferable to sudcate, and triangular to triquetrous. When, as in the last instance, a purely Latin word is become familiar English, it is certainly not the worse on that account. Uniform, universal, and many others, are now completely naturalized, and may justify weedateral as a translation, now first at- tempted, of secundus; and which is at any rate better than securd. The Latin has furnished us with numerous words, in common use, beginning with 0d ; and therefore obovate may be admitted, as more commodious than iversely ovate, and by this time equally intelligible. Still I prefer the English construction of ovate-/anceolate to the half Latin ovato-lanceolate. According to these examples, the reader will judge of the rest. He will find in my introductory publications explanations of every use- ful or necessary term, perhaps of many more ; though in general those which pedantry and affectation have contrived, without necessity, are purposely omitted in those works, and I hope never used in the present volumes. The synonyms, or references to authors, given in the Flera Britannica, have here received consi- derable augmentation, as well as correction. Every one has been carefully revised ; and where the same specific names as mine are used, it has been thought best not to encumber these pages with citations of every provincial or local Flora throughout; though