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sive range. In many places it covers acres of ground, crowding 

 out the natural flora. The bees alone seem to profit by its 

 abundance, but the honey so produced is in some places so char- 

 acteristic as to taste bitter and unpalatable Chenopodiiun album 

 and Atrijjlex 2Mtula, known here as pig weed, are fairly abundant. 

 The grasses foreign to the country have been mostly introduced 

 either for lawns or agricultural purposes. These include Poa 

 pratensis, Dactylis ylomerata, Lolium perenne, and among the 

 casuals may be mentioned Poa annua, Lolium temulentiim, and 

 Gragrostis pocoides. 



Y. Connection between Saxon-English and Latin. By Edward J. 

 Chinnock, LL.D. 



The object of this paper is to show the connection between 

 English proper, as it existed before it came into contact with 

 Latin speakers and writers, and the Latin language. I have 

 found between 400 and 500 words which are cognate or akin in 

 these two languages — a fact which proves their common origin. 

 "We must remember that English belongs to the Teutonic group 

 of the Indo-European family of languages, and that Latin belongs 

 to another group of the same family. The ancestors of Romans 

 and Teutons belonged to the same original stock, and spoke the 

 same tongue. The Indo-European family of languages is divided 

 into seven groups — 1, Indian languages ; 2, Hellenic ; 3, Italic 

 or Romanic ; 4, Teutonic ; 5, Celtic ; G, Sclavonic ; 7, Lettic. 

 The Teutonic group is divided into three branches — 1, Low 

 German ; 2, High German ; 3, Scandinavian. The English 

 belongs to the Low German, and the modern German belongs to 

 tlie High German division. English is divided into four — 1, 

 Old English or Anglo-Saxon ; 2, Modern English ; 3, Provincial 

 English; 4, Lowland Scotch. Abbreviations — O.E., Old English 

 (Anglo-Saxon) ; G., German. 



Ab. — Of, off; iu Old English sometimes spelt uf. 



Abdo. — Do. This Latin root is only found in compound verbs, such as 

 condo, trado, &c. 

 .4cie,s.— Edge, from O.E. ecg.; G., ecke. 

 Ad.— At. 



Aes ( — ahesj. — Ore, from O.E. ar, or, or ; G., (-.rz. 

 Aevum. — Ever. O.E., aefer ; aye, O.E., a or awa (ever) ; G., eivig. 

 Ager. — Acre and acorn ; G., acker. 



