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JUNE 23. St. Etheldrida, virgin and abbess, 

 A.D. 679. 



St. Mary of Oignies, 1213. 



Vigil of St. John the Baptist- 



Obs. St. Etheldrida was third daughter of Annasor Anna, the 

 holy kincr of the East Angles, and St. Thereswyda. In compliance 

 with the" desire of her friends she married Tonbercht, but they lived 

 together in perpetual continency. After the death of her husband, the 

 holy virgin and widow received the veil in the monastery of Caldmg- 

 ham, beyond Berwick, in 672. She returned to the Isle of Ely, 

 which her husband had settled upon her for her dowry, and there 

 founded a double monastery upon her own estate after a lingering 

 illness. She breatlied out her pure soul on the '23d of June, 67P. 



Our Lady's Slipper Cypripedium calceolus fl. 

 Sweet Pea Lathyrus odoratus fl. 

 Bustard Poppy Papaver hybridum fl. 

 Sage Salvia officinalis fl. 

 Lavatera Lavatera trimestris fl. 

 Threeleaved Snapdragon Antirrhinum triphy Hum fi. 

 Great Snapdragon Antirrhinum purpureum fl. 

 Sage called Salvia from its saving and salubrious qualities, is 

 antisceptic and soothing to the stomach when taken in infusion. An 

 old proverb says : 



Cur moriatur homo cui Salvia crescit in horto ? 

 Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis ! 

 Salvia salvatrix, naturae conciliatrix, 

 Salvia cum ruta faciat tibi pocula tuta. 

 Very similar lines relating to Rue Kuta gravenkna are recorded 

 among the remains of our ancient botany, and the medicme practised 

 by the religious orders. Ancient monkish lines say of Rue ; 

 Nobilis et Ruta quia lumina reddit acuta; 

 Auxilio Rutae vir lippe videbis acute ; 

 Cruda comesta recens oculos caligine purgat ; 

 Ruta viris minuit, Venerem mulieribus addit ; 

 Ruta facit castum, dat lumen, et ingerit asturp ; 

 Cocta facit Ruta et de pollicibus loca tuta. 

 The Threeleaved Snapdragon has a flower of a purple yellow and 

 white colour, and is a biennial at most. The second sort we have 

 enumerated has a deep lake flower, and is a hardy perennial. 



Gloworras, called in German Johanniswurmchen from the saint 

 whose vigil is celebrated tonight, are now commonly seen in fine 

 warm vve°ather by the roadsides on the grass, &c. 



