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FEB. 7. St. RoMUALD, b. c. found, of Camaldoli 

 A.D. 1027. 



St. Richard, king of England, c. 



St. Theodorus of Heraclea. 



St, Tressain, priest and conf. 



St. Augulus, bp. in England, m. 



Obs. St. Romuald was of the family of the Dukes of Ravenna, 

 and was brought up in every sort of luxury. He was induced to 

 take the religious habit from the following extraordinary incident : — 

 Having been at his father's orders present at a duel, in which his 

 father killed his adversary, he retired shocked and humiliated to 

 the Benedictine monastery of Classis, to do penance for the crime 

 of being accessory to murder, and was at length so excited to a de- 

 vote life by the society of the monks, that he gave up the world, and 

 at last retired to a desert. He was founder of the Order of the 

 Monastery of Camaldoli in Tuscany. He wore the hair shirt, lived 

 on vegetables, and observed the other austerities so often and so 

 willingly embraced by the saints of the early ages. 



St. Augulus seems to be the same as Ouil of Normandy, the 

 French call him Aule. 



Roundleaved Sowbread Cyclamen Count flowers. 



This beautiful ornament of the early spring will blow at this time 

 if kept sheltered, or in a greenhouse, but it will not flower near so 

 soon in the open ground in our climate : it is figured in Curtis' 

 Botanical Magazine as a greenhouse plant. Through the month of 

 March it flowers abundantly, and being an early and at the same 

 time an ornamental plant, it should be kept in pots for the purpose 

 of being brought into the house. A rich loam soil mixed with bog 

 mould suits it best, and it should be kept watered. 



The name of this pentandrious monogynious plant is of Greek 

 origin, and signifies circular ; it alludes either to the roundness of 

 the leaves or of the roots. The familiar name among the country 

 people corresponds to Sowbread. In French, Pain du porceau ; in 

 the village dialect. Fan de pur, both signifying Sowbread. Itahan, 

 Pane porcino. Pane torreno, that is Gioundbread. 



The Persian Cyclamen, which is the most popular, flowers in 

 March or April ; it is sweetscented, and varies in colour from a pure 

 white to a white and purple, or sometimes to a beautiful blush co- 

 lour. It is, as the name implies, a native of Persia ; it has also 

 been found in the Isle of Cyprus, and is indeed not unworthy of 

 cultivation. It is a pretty flower for the parlour or study table, and 

 the temperature of an inhabited room is well adapted to it. 



