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JUNE 17. SS. NiCANDER and Marcian, martyrs, 

 about 303. 

 St. Botulph, abbot, 655. 

 St. Avitus, abbot, 530. 

 St. Molingus, bishop in Ireland, 697. 

 St. Prior, hermit, 4th cent, 



Obs. SS. Nicander and Marcian, as appears from the circum- 

 stances of their acts, suffered under Dioclesian after every effort 

 was tried in vain to make them sacrifice to the idols ; the execu- 

 tioner having bound their eyes, struck off their heads on the 17th 

 of June. 



Nasturtiums Tropoeolum majus fl. raro. 

 Monkey Flower Mimulus lutens full flower. 

 Field Mallow Malva Sylvestris fl. raro. 

 Field Bindweed Convolvulus nrvensis flowers. 

 White Orchis Orchis bifolia full flower. 



Nasturtiums or the Great Indian Cress begin now to strew its 

 brilliant orange flowers among its bright green leaves : it continues 

 all midsummer and till near Lammas Tide to blow plentifully and 

 scantily all the rest of the summer. Some plants spring up and 

 show flowers at Michaelmas. 



Field Mallow as well as Field Bindweed begin to show their 

 purple flowers by the highways, hedges, and in the fields, and so 

 continue to the end of the aestival season. 



The White Orchis is found in the long grass under the shade of 

 trees in damp places. 



The word Mallow, in Latin Malva or Malicae, is said to come 

 from a Hebrew Word. The French call it Mauve. 



A species of Mallow was used among the Romans as an esculent 

 vegetable. Horace mentions it as one of his ordinary dishes. A 

 tree of the Mallow kind furnishes food to the Egyptians and the 

 Chinese. A kind of paste, called by the French name of Pate de 

 Mauve, was prepared fiom the root, which is thought to be effica- 

 cious in allaying the irritation produced by violent coughing. 



The Mallow was formerly planted, with some other flowers, the 

 Asphodel in particular, around the graves of departed friends. It 

 was probably this circumstance which led to the reflections, in the 

 epitaph on Bion, by Moschus, of which the following is a parody : — 



Raise, raise tlie dir^e. Muses of Sicily. 

 Alas ! when Mallows in the garden die, 

 Green parsley, or the crisp luxuriant dill. 

 They live again, and flower another year; 

 But We, how great soe'er, or strong, or wise. 

 When once we die, sleep in the senseless earth 

 A long, an endless, unawakeable s\eep.— Foliage. 



Green Maybug Scarihaeus solsfitialis aippears. 



