For the 2nd ASPNS conference the emphasis regarding the topics of the talks was placed on
lexicographic and linguistic matters. In this volume the contributors assess the various
problems of working with plant names like foxes glofa and geormanleaf pulege and psyllium
hlenortear or fornetes folm. A special study analyses the semantic aspects of Old English plant
names. More generally plant related discussions deal with the mandrake legend in Anglo-Saxon
England and continental Europe the need for a new publication of the Old English Herbarium and
of the Medicina de Quadrupedibus or the tree names in Anglo-Saxon charters. The conference
also served as a platform to introduce the Graz-Munich online project Dictionary of Old English
Plant Names.
