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than the GaeHc subha, a raspberry, and subcraobh, a raspberry busli, 

 Rubus Idaeus. In creses, beech-nuts, appears the Irish grech. The 

 two Irish names, Caorinleana, Valeriana officinalis, and Caorogleana, 

 Lychnis flos cuculi, should between them explain the Canary girolana, 

 a bush. Calgbrudhan, Ruscus aculeatus or butcher's broom, is hardly 

 so recognizable in gwarvera, hivalvera, the Canary word for it ; but 

 guaydil, Convolvulus floridus, answers rather to the Irish codalian, 

 Mandragora or mandrake, and codhlan, Papaver or poppy. Bophthal- 

 mum \s joraida in Canary, the nearest to which in Irish is ceannruadh, 

 Chelidonium majus or celandine, which Piny extols as an eye-salve. 

 The Irish sinicin, Sempervivum or houseleek, resembles the Canary 

 sanjora, denoting the same. The Dracunculus Canariensis is tacorantia, 

 and the name of the Irish Arum of the same family is gacharonda. A 

 bulbous plant, taravibuche, invites comparison with the Welsh crwnben, 

 a bulb. Mallows seem to abound in the islands, being known as 

 aguamante, amagante, jiiesco and vesto, with which may be conjpared 

 the Irish ucas-fiadhain, viil-niheacan, ochus, and fochas. The botanical 

 list embraces ninety-three names of plants or their products, of which 

 one only is certainly Basque, namely, the word for strawberry. Had 

 Edward's Dictionary contained any botanical names worth speaking 

 of, greater results might have been obtained, but enough are in evidence 

 to prove the Guanches to be Celts, and Celts, moreover, in possession of 

 some of the plant lore of the Druids. 



It is unfortunate that among the Guanche words taken down at 

 various times, the full forms of the personal pronouns do not appear. 

 There is every reason to suppose that they were akin to those of the 

 Berbers, which are : 



I, iiekki. We, nekni. 



Thou, kemnii. Ye, ktinwi, kunwith. 



He, netta. They, nuthni. 



The nearest pronouns to these in the first and second persons are, 

 strange as it may appear, the Peruvian of this continent. Such are : 



I, noca. We, nocanchic. 



Thou, catn, chema. Ye, camchic. 



He, hupa. They, hupanaca. 



The divergence of the third persons is hard to explain, but the 

 Peruvian furnishes the purer Celtic forms, since the Aymara hupa and 

 hupanaca answer to the Welsh efe, efo, he, and hwynt, they. The Celtic 

 character of much of the Peruvian vocabulary was indicated by the 

 writer as far back as 1879, in the pages of the Canadian Naturalist of 



