108 PASQUE? 



APRIL 17. St. Anicetus, pope and martyr, 2d age. 

 St. Stephen, abbot of Citeaux, ia 1134. 

 St. Simeon, bishop of Ctesiphon, &c. mm. 341. 



Obs. St. Anicetus succeeded St. Pius in the latter part of the 

 reign of Antoninus Pius, sat about eight years, from 165 to 173, and 

 is styled a martyr in the Roman Martyrologies : if he did not shed 

 his blood for the faith, he at least purchased the title of martyr by 

 great sufferings and dangers. 



Friars Cowl Arum Arisarum flowers. 

 Water Avens Geum rivale flowers. 

 Gentianella Gentiana acaulis flowers. 

 Yellow Alysson Alyssum Saxatile flowers. 



The Gentianelle has a beautiful azure flower on a very short stalk ; 

 it begins now to flower, and when planted in rows or in large beds 

 it has a singularly beautiful effect all the latter part of April and 

 the beginning of May. 



The Yellow Alyssum is a pretty tetradynamious plant, blowing 

 at the end of April and through JMay. A plant of it which we 

 brought from Rottingdean in 1825 flowers regularly about this 

 time. 



The large broadleaved Daffodil is now in flower. 



Whitethroat Sylvia cinerea arrives. 



Grasshopperlark Salicaria locussella arrives. 



Lesser Reedsparrow Salicaria arundinacea arrives. 



These birds now arrive, and by the end of the month are 

 plentiful. 



The Wheatear Curruca Oenanthe now begins the business of 

 nidification ; its nest is very simple, being only a few dried leaves 

 and grass. Wagtails are now numerous, and chiefly to be found by 

 shallow brooks and streams of running water, hence they are called 

 Water Wagtails. There are three species found in Great Britain: 

 the Pied Wagtail, the White Wagtail, and the Yellow Wagtail ; 

 the two last have both much yellow in their plumage. The French 

 call these birds Bergeronettes. 



