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sive range. In many places it covers acres of ground, crow ding 
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 Chenopodium album 
and Atriplex patula, 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 glomerata, Lolium perenne, and among the 
casuals may be mentioned Poa annua, Lolium temulentum, and 
Gragrostis pocoides. 
V. Connection between Saxon-English and Latin. By Epwarp J. 
Curnnock, 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. TI 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; 6, 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 
the High German division. English is divided into four—1, 
Old English or Anglo-Saxon 3 2, Modern English ; 3, Provincial 
English ; 4, Lowland Scotch. Abbreviations—O.E., Old English 
(Anglo-Saxon) ; G., German. 
Ab.—Of, off ; in Old English sometimes spelt af. 
Abdo.—Do. This Latin root is only found in compound verbs, such as 
condo, trado, &e. 
Acies,—Edge, from O.E. ecg.; G., ecke. 
Ad.—At. 
Aes ( =ahes ).—Ore, from O.E. ar, or, or; G., erz. 
Aevum.—Ever. 0.E., aefer ; aye, O.E., a or awa (ever) ; G., ewig. 
Ager.—Acre and acorn ; G., acker. 
