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IIILAUY TIDE. 



JAN. 12. St. Aucadius, martyr. 



St. Aelred, abbot of Rieval in Yorkshire, 1 1 09. 

 St. Benedict Biscop, a.d. 690. 

 St. Tigrius and St. Eutropius. 



Campifalia. — Julian Cal. 



Obs. St. Arcadius is said to have suffered martyrdom in tiie 

 reign of Valerian, though others say in that of Dioclesian, and that 

 it took place in Caesarea. 



St. Benedict Biscop was descended from an illustrious family and 

 was high in office at the court of Oswi the religious king of the 

 Northumbrians. He was the first who brought glaziers from the 

 continent to make the windows of religious houses. He also en- 

 riched the monasteries and churches of England with pictures, 

 sacred books, and various foreign curiosities, particularly his monas- 

 tery of St. Peter at Weremouth. 



Hygrometic Moss Funaria hygrometrica fr. 



The fructification of the above moss as well as of all this genus is 

 worthy of particular attention. The weather of this day as we find 

 by a reference to journals of long standing is usually cold and raw. 



The Brumal Flora. 



When the bare boughs of leafless trees 

 Scarcely murmur in the breeze, 

 When the dark and wintry cloud 

 Skreens the welkin like a shroud, 

 Flora yet the swaine invites 

 To the garden of delightes: 

 Here and there a flower is seen . 

 Starting up dead stalks between. 

 Of purple stock, or marigold 

 Which shews her orange rays of gold. 

 And the red flower of the wind 

 That quivers to the gale inclin'd. 

 Then lead us to the mossgrown cell 

 AVhere perhaps some aged hermit dwell. 

 Who like the elements contending 

 Seems life's last ray through winter's clouds extending. 



Anthol. Bor. Aus. 



