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JUNE 7. St. Paul, b. of Constantinople, a.d. 350. 



St. Robert, abbot, 1159. 



St. Colman, b. of Dromore in Ireland, 610. 



SS. Godeschale, &c. martyrs. 



St. Meriadec, bishop, 1302. 



Obs, St. Paul was a native of Thessalonica, but deacon of the 

 church of Constantinople in 340, when the Bishop of Alexandria, 

 lying on his death bed, recommended him for his successor. He 

 was elected, but unjustly deposed by an assembly of Arian prelates 

 in 340. His martyrdom took place at Accusus, a small town on 

 the confines of Capadocia and Armenia. After being left six days 

 without food, he was strangled about the year 350. 



Pinks Disanthus liortensis full flower. 

 Red Centaury Chironia centaurium flowers. 

 Black Horehound Ballota nigra Howers. 

 Our Lady's Seal Tamus communis full flower. 

 Common Bryony Bryonia dioica full flower. 

 Hop Humulus Lupulus flowers. 

 Spurious Fleur de Lis Iris spuria flowers. 

 Elderscented Iris Iris sambucina flowers. 

 Siberian Iris Iris Siberica flowers. 

 Brown Iris Iris squalens flowers. 



Our Ladies Seal, also called Black Bryony, is in flower till Au^st, when it 

 bears large berries. This plant is mentioned by Lord Bacon in his Sylva 

 Sylvarum. It was formerly a medicinal herb, and knovrn in the shops by the 

 name ot Sigillum Beatae VerKinis. 



Nearly all of that beautiful tribe the Irides flower in the solstitial season, 

 and begin now to come forth daily. Fifty one species aie already known to 

 our gardeners. A rich moist soil suits the greater part of them. 



Pluche, in La Spectacle de la Nature, gives the following conjectural ori^rin 

 of the Fleur de Lis:— "The upper part of one leaf of the Lily, when fully 

 expande 1, and the two contiuuous leaves beheld in profile, have," he observes, 

 " a faint likeness to the top of the Flower de Luce ; so that the original Flower 

 de Luce, which often appears on the crowns and sceptres in the monuments of 

 the first and second race of kings, was most probably a composition of these 

 tiiree leaves. Le^is the Seventh, engaged in the second crusade, distinguished 

 himself, as was customary in those times, by a particular blazon, and took this 

 figure for his coal of arms; and, as the common people generally contracted 

 tlie name of Lewis into Luce, it is natural," s.iys the Abbe, " to imagine that 

 this flower was by corruption distinguished in process of time by the name of 

 FJower de Luce." But some antiquaries are of opinion that the original arms 

 of the Franks were three toads; which, becoming odious, were gradually 

 changed, so as to have no positive rciemblance ot any natural object, and 

 named Fleur de Lys. 



