222 FORTY DAYS OF ST. SWITHIN. 



AUG. 9. St. Romanus, martyr. 



St. Nathy, priest in Ireland, 530. 



St. Fedlemid, bishop in Ireland, 6th cent. 



Obs. St. Romanus was a soldier in Rome at the time of the 

 martyrdom of St. Lawrence ; seeing the constancy with which the 

 holv martyr suffered his torments, he embraced the faith, and was 

 beheaded the day before the martyrdom of St. Lawrence. 



Virginian Tobacco Nicotiana Tabacum full fl. 

 Common Tobacco Nicotiana rusticum fl. 

 Largeleaved Tobacco Nicotiana macrophylla fl. 

 Wild Ragweed Senecio Jacobaea full fl. 

 Common Cockscomb Celosia cristata full fl. 

 Drooping Cockscomb Celosia cornna fl. 

 Calfsnout Antirrhinum orontiiun fl. 

 Great Snapdragon AntirrJdnum majus fl. 

 Dark Toadflax Linaria tristis full fl. 

 Purple Toadflax Linaria purpurea full fl. 

 Villous Toadflax Linaria villosa fl. 

 Alpine Toadflax Linaria alpina full fl. 

 White Toadflax Linaria chalepensis fl. 

 Southernwood Artemesia Abrotanum fl. 

 Cadweed Graphalium stoechas full fl. 

 Annual Dryflower Xeranthemum annuum full fl. 

 Sea Starwort ylsfer Tripoliumii. 

 Common Fleabane Inula dysenterica fl. 

 Golden Samphire Inula erithmifolia fl. 

 Small Fleabane Inula pulicaria fl. 



The Celosias are hothouse plants, but will bear being brought 

 into our rooms and balconies at this lime of year as ornaments. 



Great numbers of that curious genus Stapelia now Hower, bul 

 mostly require nightly shelter in the conservatory. 



In our gardens several species of that troublesome genus the 

 Goosefoot now flower, and they should be carefully rooted up before 

 they cast their seeds. The Allseed Chenopodium poliispermum is 

 one of the most troublesome, and is now in seed. 



Lavender is still in full flower, and the cutting it to scent linen 

 ought to be no longer delaved. 



