162 WI11T9UN TIDE. 



JUNE 10. St. Margaret, queen of Scotland, 

 A D. 1093. 



SS. Getulius, &c. martyrs, 2d cent. 



St. Landry, bishop and confessor, 650. 



B. Henry of Treviso, 1315. 



Obs. St. Margaret was little niece to St. Edward the Confessor and ;_'r.Tnd- 

 d lushter to Edward Ironside. She was married to Malcolm and crowned 

 (Jneen of Scotland in 1070, being twenty four years of ae;e. Her leinn was 

 niaiked wl li the greatest charity and benevolence to all her subjects, and after 

 a life of resignation and piety, she was loosed from the bonds of her mortal 

 l>ody on the Kith of November, 10H3, in the forty seventh year of her age. Slif 

 was' canonized by Pope Innocent IV. in 1261. 



Yellow Flag Iris Pseudacorus full flower. 

 Rogation Flower Polygala vulgaris full flowers, 

 Roii^h Dandelion Apargia hispida full flower. 

 Downy Dandelion Thrincia liirta flowers. 

 Bellied Iris Iris ventricosa flowers. 

 Shortleaved Xyris Xyris brevifolia flowers. 

 Snakeshead Iris tuherosa defl. 



The Polygala is called Rotation Flovrer from its being often used in the 

 nosegays "carried in the village [irocessions on Rogation I 'ays, which are the 

 IMonday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday,' called Ascension 

 Day, that is, in the week inimediately preceding Whitsun l)ay. 



in njany liglit and chalky soils where Saintfoin is grown the fields begin 

 now to look red with it. Corn Poppies begin now to be very numerous, whole 

 fields in suitable soils are sometimes quite red with it, so that the lines in the 

 old Floral song. 



And Poppies a sanguine mantle spread 



For tlie blood of the Dragon St. Margaret shed, 



seem to relate to the Saint of that name recorded today, whereas the cele- 

 brated picture of St.- Margaret and the Dragon by Kauhael alludes unquestion- 

 ably to St. Margaret v. m. recorded on the L'Otli of July. 



The Yellow Iris is now in full blow, and is a beautiful plant formerly in 

 much esteem. The poets seem not to have been acquainted with the Persian 

 Iris or Fleur do Lis de Ste. tienevieve Iris Persica, which has so fine a 

 nerfume. 



Sp-nser, who properly distinguishes the Flower de Lnce from a Lily, though 

 acknowledging the counexiou between them, has the following lines :" 

 The Lily, lady of the flowering field, 

 The Flower de Luce, her lovely paramour, 

 . Bid thee to them thy fruitless labours yield. 

 And soon leave off this toilsome weary stour. 

 Lo ! lo ! how brave she decks her bounteous bower 



With silken curtains and gold coverlets. 

 Therein to shroud her sumptuous balamour; 

 Yet neither spins, nor card, ne cares, nor frets. 

 But to her mother Nature all her cares she lets. 



Madame Smith gives a lively picture of the Yellow Water Iris : 



Amid its waving swords, in flaming gold 



The Iris tower?, and her high place doth hold. . .; 



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