[18] This name seems to have been originally applied to the crooked tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke, and humming-bird was probably applied to moths of the genus Sphinx (named from the form of the larva) before the bird bearing this name was known in Europe.
[19] Scarcely legitimate, the PG. word for a grave-yard being kærich-hof.
[20] Diagonally.
[21] By analogy these words should be rei˛ and rei˛heit, but as they are scarcely PG. they are given as High German.
[22] This word is correct without the elisive mark, which perverts the syntax.
[23] The Rev. D. Ziegler.