JUSTIN TIDE. 153 



JUNE 1. St. Justin, martyr, A. D. 167. 



St. Pamphilus, 309. 



St. Ceprais, abbot, 430. 



St. Peter of Pisa, 1435. 



St. Wistan of Mercia, 849. 



St. Nicomede ? 



Obs. St. Justin the martyr, who died a.d. 167, is the Saint re- 

 corded today in all the Roman Calendars and Breviaries, neverthe- 

 less for some unknown reason Nicomede is registered in the English 

 Calendars today. 



St. Peter of Pisa founded the order of the Hermits of St. Jerom. 



Yellow Rose Rosa lutea flowers. 

 Yellow Flag Iris Pseudacorus flowers. 

 Particoloured Iris Iris versicolor flowers. 

 Wall Poppy Papaver dubium flowers. 

 Corn Poppy Papaver Rhaeas flowers. 

 Yellow Garlick Allium fiavum full flower. 



All trees are now in leaf, and indeed most of them in full leaf; 

 the Oak, being nearly the latest, is sometimes only in young leaf. 



The Yellow Iris or Flag begins to flower by the sides of ditches 

 and pools of water. Our ponds produce it in abundance, and it con- 

 tinues to flower till the end of July or later. 



Everything now wears a solstitial appearance ; there is no per- 

 fectly dark night, but only a long twilight, and the INIidsummer 

 flowers begin to take the place of the vernal. The flowering of the 

 Elder is also a remarkable indication of the approaching solstice, as 

 well as the Corn Poppies and other solstitial plants beginning to 

 ornament the fields. The Blue Cornflower in parts of France is 

 now in blow, and is called Bluee ; it comes into season before the 

 Cochlicoe or Anemone goes out, and both meet together in the 

 Parisian Bowpots. 



In this month we may expect nearly the whole of that beautiful 

 genus Iris to blow. 



