VISITATION TIDE. 189 



JULY 7. Translation of St. Thomas a Becket. 

 St. Pantaenus, father of the Church, 3d cent, 

 St. Willibakl, bishop and confessor, 8th cent. 

 St. Hedda, bishop and confessor, 705. 

 St. Edilburga, virgin. 

 St. Felix, bishop of Nantes, 584. 

 St. Benedict XI. pope, 1304. 



Oi« St. Pantaenus flourished in the second age. He was a Sicilian by 

 birti' bv profession a stoic philosopher. His esteem for virtue leil hnn into an 

 HcquV.iulance with the Christians, and, being chnnned with tlieir innocence 

 and sanctity, tie opened his eyes to the truth. He was established by Ue ue- 

 trius who was made Bishop of Alexandria in 189, preacher ot the gospel to 

 the ea'itern nations. He found some seeds already sown in the Indies, and a 

 book of the gospel of St. Matthew in Hebrew. Before the year 21b he closed 

 a noble and excellent life by a happy death. 



Henbane Hijoscyamus niger fl . 

 Marsh Groundsel Senecio paludosus fl. 

 Nasturtiums Tropoeolum majus full fl. 

 Stramonium Datura Stramonium fl. 

 Musk Mallow Malva moschata fl. 

 Traveller's Joy Clemetis vitalba fl. 

 Houseleak Sempervivum tectorum fl. 

 Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum coronarium fl. 

 Enchanter's Nightshade Circaea Lutetiana fl. 

 Alpine Nightshade Circaea alpina fl. 

 Nil Bindweed Convolvulus Nil fl. 

 Water Betony Scrophularia aquatica fl. 

 Japan Lily Lilium Japonicum fl. 

 Yarrow Achillaea Ptarmica fl. 

 Milfoil Achillaea millefolium fl. 

 Sheep's Sorrel Jasione montana fl. 

 Orpine Sedum Telephium fl. 



The Traveller's Jov is the VVhitetlowered or Wild Virgin's Bower, and as it 

 tomes into bluw about Visitation Tide, it has thence derived its name 

 among the religious orders, who were our first botanists, and who in the sa- 

 cred retirement ot their abbey gardens cultivated both botany and popular 

 medicine, before systematic botanists had rendered the former science intri- 

 cate, and academical physicians had made the latter a trade instead of a perpe- 



The Solstitial Flora is now rather on tlie decline, and is about to give place 

 to the aestival. The Lammas Tide flowers have in general a dilterent charac- 

 ter. The abundance of synginaceous plants which flower after tliat time iiiarR 

 the late summer and autumnal Flora. 



