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MAY 10. St. Antoninus, bishop and c. a.d. 1459. 



St. Achard, bishop of Avranches. 



St. Gordian and Epimachus, martyrs- 



St. Isidore, patron of Madrid. 



St. Comgall, abbot in Ireland. 



St. Cataldus, bishop. 



Obs. St. Antoninus was born at Florence in 1389. At sixteen 

 years of age he took the habit in the order of St. Dominic. He was 

 chosen very young to govern the great convent at Rome. He was 

 consecrated and took possession of the archbishopric of Florence in 

 1446, and fulfilled that see with the most heroic practices of humi- 

 lity, penance, and piety. God called him to the reward of his 

 labours on the 2d of May, 1459, in the seventieth year of his age, 

 and the thirteenth of his archiepiscopal dignity. 



Slenderleaved Piony Paeonia tenuifolia in full fl. 

 Blue Bottle Centaui'ca montana flowers. 

 Mouse Ear Hieracium pilosella flowers. 



The Blue Bottle is a native of the mountainous parts of Germany : 

 it flowers with us all May and June, and often till July sparingly. 

 Mouse Ear is only seen yet on warm south banks. 



The Bugle AJuga reptans, which we noticed in April, is still in fuM 

 flower. Stocks are now in full flower. The Wallflowers, Polyan- 

 thuses, and Primroses, begin to decline. Blue Harebells Hyacin- 

 thus non scriptus everywhere covers the fields, glens, and upland 

 slopes, with its beautiful blue ; the Bulbous Crowfoot is most abun- 

 dant in meadows, the other sorts are getting into flower, and the 

 Dandelions are in seed. 



Daisies still flower abundantly, and cover whole fields in certain 

 places. 



The Dotterell now appears on boggy moors and such like places. 

 On the authority of the Every Day Book we slate its appearance an- 

 nually in May and June on Gog Blagog hills near Cambridge. 



In the Ephem. Nat. today is called Apodophoria, from the ap- 

 pearance of the Swift Hirundo apus, described on the Apparition of 

 St. Michael, on which day indeed it oftener arrives than ou this. 



