PLANT NAMES 47 



called from the Island of Tobago in the West Indies, 

 but some think that it is from tamhoku, the word for 

 a pipe in Hayti. And Candytuft may have reached 

 us from Candia, the modern name of Crete. The 

 Walnut is not the nut that grows on walls, but the 

 " foreign nut." Wal here is the same as in 

 ** Wales." All Teutonic people called tribes not of 

 their blood or speech Welshmen, or foreigners, and 

 we find this wal, or in the Romance gal, in Cornwall, 

 Gallia, the ancient name of France, and in those of 

 many other places. Hollyhock is the Hock in- 

 digenous to the Holy Land, Hock being the Celtic 

 name for Mallow. It has also been suggested that 

 it derived its name from the Holy Island, Lindis- 

 fame, or from the saint of that isle, after whom it 

 was called St. Cuthbert's Kale. 



