ST. PETEU'S TIDE. 179 



JUNE 27. St. Ladislas, king and conf. a.d. 1095. 

 St. John of Montier, 6th cent. 



Ohs. St. Ladislas the First was son of Bela king of Hungary, and 

 born in 1041. He was compelled, much against his inclination, to 

 ascend the throne in 1080. Chastity, meekness, gravity, charity, 

 and piety, were from his infancy the distinguishing parts of his cha- 

 racter. He was preparing to command as general in chief the great 

 expedition of the Christians against the Saracens for the recovery of 

 the Holy Land, when God called him to himself on the 30th of July, 

 1095. 



Perforated St. John's Wort Hypericum perforatum fl. 



Melun Crepis Crepis edulis fl. 



Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum fullest fl. 



Milton, says Martyn, seems to have mistaken the Honeysuckle 

 when he gives it the name of Eglantine, and distinguishes it from 

 Sweetbriar, since the Sweetbriar is itself the Eglantine : — 



Through the Sweetbriar, or the Vine, 



Or the twisted Eglantine. 



Shakspeare justly distinguishes the two : — 



I know a bank whereon the wild Thyme blows, 

 Where Oxlip, and the nodding Violet grows ; 

 O'ercanopied with luscious woodbine. 

 With sweet Musk Roses, and with Eglantine. 



Milton, in Comus, speaks of it by its own name : — 

 I sat me down to watch upon a bank 

 With ivy canopied, and interwove, 

 And flaunting Honeysuckle. 



And by the name of Woodbine in his Paradise Lost : — 

 Let us Divide our labours, thou where choice 

 Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind 

 The Woodbine round this arbour, or direct 

 The clasping ivy where to climb. 



The Crepis noticed today were introduced by us from Melun in 

 France in 1822. It grov.'s in various parts of that country, and is 

 eaten as salad : it increases very fast by seeds. 



