W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.

Temple.

_Cancre_ and _crabe_ in French are synonymous, meaning the same; Anglice,

crab (_fish_).

Now, we have crab-tree, a wild apple-tree; a canker rose, a wild rose; dog

rose, dog-violet, horse leech, horse chestnut. In all these cases the

prefix denotes inferiority of species.