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JUNE 3. St. Clotilda, queen of France, a.d. 545. 

 St. Cecilius, confessor, 211. 

 St. Coemgen of Ireland, 1618. 

 St. Lifard, abbot, 6th cent. 

 St. Genesius, bishop and conf. 662. 



Obs. St. Clotilda is also called Clotildis, and was queen of 

 France. 



St. Cecilius was a man of the world, a person of wit and abilities, 

 but his own idol, and a great lover of pleasure and applause ; hence 

 his chief religion seems to have been to serve himself, notwithstand- 

 ing this we find Cecilius at length, by the power of Divine grace, 

 made a glorious convert, an eminent Saint, and in all probability he 

 was the converter of the great St. Cyprian. St. Cecilius is named 

 in the Martyrology. 



Rose de Meaux Rosa provincialis flowers. 



Fraxinella Dictamnus alhus flowers. 



Yellow Hesperis Hesperis tristis flowers. 



The Rose de'TMeaux is a very small Rose, which blows with a 

 deep pink flower in our garden about this time; there are some va- 

 rieties of it. 



Aquila rises acronycally in EbN. 



The Cuckoo now changes his note. The Cuckoo begins early in 

 the season with the interval of a minor third ; the bird then proceeds 

 to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice 

 breaks out without attaining a minor sixth. For many particulars 

 relative to this bird, see Phil. Tr. vol. Ixxviii. pp.219, 237. 



Heywood, in his Epigram " Of Use," 1587, alludes to this re- 

 markable circumstance of the Cuckoo's change of note : 



An Aprill, the Koocoo can sing her song by rote. 



In June, of tune she cannot sing a note : 



At first, koocoo, koocoo, sing still can she do ; 



At last, kooke, kooke, kooke, six kookes to one koo. 



The tall blue spikes of flowers of the Wolfsbane and Larkspurs are 

 now common in cottage and other gardens, and are called Blue 

 Rockets. 



