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MARCH 13. St. Euphrasia, virgin, a.d. 410. 



St. Nicephorus, patr. of Constantinople in 828. 



St. Theophorus, abbot and confessor, 814. 



St. Kennocha, virgin in Scotland, 1007. 



St. Gerald, bishop, 



St. Pulcherius, abbot, 655. 



Obs. St. Euphrasia was only daughter and heiress to Antigonus 

 and Euphrasia. After the death of her father she entered a Convent 

 of Nuns in Egypt, who lived only on herbs : she died at the age of 

 about thirty years, having passed her life in great austerity and 

 almost continual prayer. — St. Kennocha was a Caledonian vestal in 

 the reign of King Malcolm the Second. — St. jVicephorus was 

 Secretary to the Emperor Constantine Copronymus, and became 

 Patriarch of Constantinople. 



Heartsease Viola tricolor flowers. 



This plant is an annual, and its flowering, which takes place more 

 or less all spring, is regulated a great deal by weather, situation, 

 &c. We have known it blow at Christmas. In April it is always 

 m flower, and generally begins about the present time. It differs 

 materially from the Sweet Violet, in having no scent. In our gardens 

 it is subject to some variety of colours. Milton calls this plant. The 

 Pansie freaked with jet, and contrasts it with The glou-ing Violet. 

 It has received a variety of whimsical names, such as Three Faces 

 under a Hood, Herb Trinity, Wild Pansie, Call me to you. Love in 

 Idleness, Jump on and Kiss me, Flower of Jove, Flamy, and others ; 

 and it seems to have been as favourite a flower with the poets as 

 the Violet. 



.Shakspeare feigns its change from white to particoloured by re- 

 ceiving the shaft of love. 



Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. 



It fell upon a little western flower. 



Before milk white, now purple with Love's wound. 



And maidens call it Love in Idleness. 



The Italians call this flower \'iola Farfalla, Fior della Trinita, and 

 Flammula. The French call it Pensees. 



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