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The Passion-flower long has blowed, 

 To betoken us signs of the holie rood: 

 The Michaelmass Dasie among dede weeds, 

 Blooms for S. Michael's valorous deeds, 

 And seems the last of the floures that stood, 

 Till the feste of S. Simon and S. Jude ; 

 Save Mushrooms and the Fungus race, 

 That grow till All Hallowtide takes place. 

 Soon the evergreen Laurel alone is green, 

 When Catherine crownes all learned menne ; 

 Then Ivy and Holly berries are seen, 

 And Yule clog and wassail come round agen." 



Ant hoi. Bar. et Aus, 



The Roman Catholics have compiled a complete list of 

 flowers, one for every day in the year, in which each flower has 

 been dedicated to a particular saint, usually for no better 

 reason than because it bloomed about the date of the saint's 

 feast day. This Saints' Floral Directory is to be found in 

 extenso in Hone's ' Every-day Book.' In the Anglican church 

 the principal Festivals or Red Letter Days have each their 

 appropriate flowers assigned them, as will be seen from the 

 following table : — 



APPROPRIATE FLOWER. 



S. Andrew's Cross — Ascyrum Cntx Andrea:. 



Sparrow Wort — Erica passerina. 



Holly — Ilex bacciflora. 



Purple Heath — Erica purpttrea. 



Flame Heath — Eiica Jlammea. 



Bloody Heath — Erica cruenta. 



Laurustine — Viburnum tinus. 



Screw Moss — Tortula rigida. 



'{- Winter Hellebore — Helleborus Jiyemalis. 



Snowdrop — Galanthus nivalis. 

 Great Fern — Ostiitmda regalis. 

 Marigold — ■ Calendula officinalis. 



Clarimond Tulip — Tulipa prcccox. 

 /"Tulip — Tulipa Gesneri, dedicated to S. Philip. 

 J Red Campion^ Zjj'ir/iww dioica rubra, 

 j Red Bachelor's Buttons — Lychnis dioica plena, dedi- 

 C cated to S. James. 



Midsummer Daisy — Chrysanthemum leiuanthemum. 



S. John's Wort — Hypericum pulchrum. 



Yellow Rattle — Khinaftthiis Galli. 



Herb Christopher — Actcea spicata. 



Sunflower — Helianthits annuics. 



Ciliated Passion-flower. — Passijlora ciliata. 



Michaelmas Daisy — Aster Tradescanti. 



Floccose Agaric — Agaricus floccosus. 

 ( Late Chrysanthemum — Chrysanthe??tum serotinum. 

 ^ Scattered Starwort — Aster passijlorus, dedicated to 

 C S. Jude. 



Amaranth. 



