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AUG. 4. St. Dominic, found. O. S. D*. a.d. 1221. 

 St. TAianus, abbot of Ireland, 622. 



Obs. St. Dominic was boTn in llTi' at Calaruega in Old Castile. He was 

 tlie founder of the lllu^tl■iolls Order of Friur Preacliers, commonly called Black 

 Friars, or Dominicuns. Tlie first oliject of which institution wa* the conver- 

 sion of the JMauicliea'i heretics and the Alhigenses. The Order of St. Dominic 

 became aftei wards one of the most renowned of the four mendicant orders. 

 Black Friars in London is so called from hcins; the quarter of the city appro- 

 priated to these Dominicans; White Friars belou-'ed to the Franciscans ; Aus- 

 tin Friars to the hermits of St. Augustin ; and Crutched Friars to the Carme- 

 lites. The Grey Friars were the reformed or barefooted Carmelites ; but there 

 were others which had the name of Grey and of White Friars and Monks ; and 

 it is not always easy to distiaaiuish the orders by the nicknames antiently 

 attached to the'ni. The memorable insiitution of the Inquisition originated 

 in the time of the foundation of the Dominicans, but the abuses of that 

 institution have been falsely ascribed to the holy and benevolent St. Dominic : 

 ihey were in fact (he offspring of a misconducted government, and hid no- 

 thing todo with the original design of the Inquisition. 



Harvest Bells Campanula rotundifolia full fl. 

 Passion Flower Passijiora coerulea full fl. 

 Whorled Coreopsis Coreopsis verticUlata fl. 

 Angelical Coreopsis Coreopsis chrysantha full fl. 

 Golden Sunflower Coreopsis aurea fl. 

 Annual Coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria fl. 

 Fulged Rudbeckia Radbeckia fulgida full fl. 

 Purple Rudbeckia Radbeckia purpurea fl. 

 Tansy Tanacetum vulgare fl. 

 Sweet Sultan Centaurea moschaia fullest fl. 

 Yellow Sultan Centaurea suaveolens fullest fl. 

 Jagged Silphia Silphiu?u laciruatum full fl. 

 Yellow Gentian Gentiana lutea full fl. 



The Harvest Bells or St. DominicK's Bells are in the Epiiemeris dedicated 

 to the saint ot today. Tliey flower all the autumn, and till quite winter in 

 some places. The Purple Kudbeckia must be distiiisuished from a new spe- 

 cies clo>ely resembling it, but w;th a longer stalk and paler flowers: the 

 Whorled Coreopsis is a tall plant with yellow starlike flowers ; the Purple 

 Rudbeckia is a tall plant with deep crimson flowers, and is almost the only 

 common syngenecious plant wiih flovveis of tliat colour tliat now blows. 



Thistles of every sort are common now, and some even begin to sliow their 

 seeds, which lioweverare usually unprolific. 



In addition to the flower recorded today in the Floral Directory, we find, "The 

 Novices of St. Dominic, like those little blue flowers called liis Bells whicli 

 shake in the wind, do tremble when blown on by the flattering breath which 

 assails them from every pi int of the compass, but yet do hold fast like them 

 when once they have taken root in the walls of a convent." This plant is very 

 tenacious of its situation, and we often see them quivering in the wind while 

 flowing from the lolty walls and tnrrets of old monastic buildings and castles 

 in ruins. 



The nest of the Harvest Mouse Mus messorhis may now be found attached 

 about midway lo the straws o: some vegetables in our cum fields; tliey are 

 very fond of fixing it to those of Beans or Peas, with which it sways back- 

 wards and forwanis when they are agitated by the wind ; it is the only Knglish 

 Mouse that elevates its nest above the ground : tliey are sometimes found in 

 the shape of a Pear, with a long neck, at others round, the size of an Orange. 



Travelling through the sandy plains of Alsace, early in August 1822, we 

 observed millions of Field Mice crossing the road, and apparently running to 

 and fro into their nests by the roadside. In tlie same place we also saw many 

 Storks flying about, and we saw theiu again iu Holland. 



