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-JUNE 15. SS. Vitus, CRESCENTiA,andMoDESTUs, 

 martyrs, 4th century. 

 St. Laudelin, abbot. 

 B. Bernard, confessor. 

 St. Vauge of Ireland, hermit. 

 St. Gregory, bishop and confessor. 



Obs. SS. Vitus, Crescentia, and Modestus, are mentioned with 

 distinction in the antient Martyrologies : they met with the crown of 

 martyrdom at Lucania in Italy, under the persecution of Dioclesian. 

 From St. Vitus is derived the Chorea S. Viti or St. Vitus' Dance in 

 medicine, said to have once prevailed extensively, and to have been 

 cured by prayer to this Saint. But we can find no yood authority 

 for this, nor any derivation of the name, to be relied on as being 

 accurate. 



Sensitive Plant Mimosa sensitiva flowers. 

 Viper's Buglos Echium vulgare flowers. 

 Red Rose Rosa Gallica full flower. 

 Common Rose Rosa centifolia full flower. 

 Water Dropwort Oenanthe crocata flowers. 

 Garden Poppy Papaver somniferum flowers. 

 Officinal Poppy Papaver somniferum album flowers. 



A bed of fullblown Poppies, whose large flowers are surcharged 

 with rain, reminds us of the following similies : 



Volvitur Euryalus leto, pulchrosque per artus 

 It cruor, inque humeros cervix collapsa lecumbit. 

 Purpureas veluti cum flos succisus aratro 

 Languescit moriens ; lassove Papavera collo 

 Demisere caput, pluvia cum forte gravantur. 



Virgil, Book IX. 

 Or as Ariosto has it : 



Come Purpurea fior languendo more, 

 Che r vomere al passar tagliato lassa, 

 O come carco di superchio umore 

 II Papaver nell' orto il capo abbassa ; 

 Cosi, qui della faccia ogni colore 

 Cadendo, Dardinel di vita passa ; 

 Passa di vita, e fa passar con lui 

 L'ardire, e la virtu di tutti i sui. 



Ariosto, Canto 18, Stanza 153. 



Virgil copied from Homer a similar idea : 



As fullblown Poppies, overcharged with rain. 

 Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain ; 

 So sinks the youth, — his beauteous head, depress'd 

 Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast. 



Pope's Homer, Book VIII. 



Early Madock Cherries are now ripe on south walls. 



