BARTLEMY TIDE. 239 



AUG. 26. vSt. Zephyrinus, pope and m. a.d. 219. 

 St. Genesius, a comedian, martyr, 303. 

 St. Gelasinus, a comedian, mart, at Heliopolis, 297. 

 St. Genesius of Aries, martyr, 4th cent. 



Obs. St. Zephyrinus, a native of Rome, succeeded Victor in the 

 Pontificate in tlie year 202, in which Severus raised the fifth most 

 bloody persecution against the church. St. Zephyrinus filled the 

 pontifical chair seventeen years, dying in 219, on the 26th of 

 August, on which most martyrologists commemorate him. 



Banded Star Lily Amaryllis Vittata full fl. 

 Peruvian Turnsole Heliotropium Peruvium defl 

 Europaean Turnsole Heliotropmm Europaeum still fl. 

 Great Honeyflower Ccrinthe major still fl. 



The leaves of the Honeywort or Honeyflower are almost of a 

 pale blue colour, and lasts a Jong time in flower. 



The Heliotrope or Turnsole, called in Italian Orologio dec Corte- 

 giani, is still in flower ; to this plant the French gardeners have 

 given the name of Madame de JNIaintenon ; it must be sheltered 

 from frost in winter, but should have plenty of fresh air in mild 

 weather. Cuttings from plants of this sort, planted in summer, 

 placed in the shade, and regularly watered, will take root in five or 

 six weeks in the open air. 



The Trailing Heliotrope, from the Cape of Good Hope, and the 

 European, are hardy annual plants, which may be sown in Septem- 

 ber or October, kept in the open air, watered as the others, and will 

 flower in July and August 



The Heliotrope is said in antient mythology to owe its existence 



to the death of Clytie, who pined away in hopeless love of Apollo, 



the personification of the Sun : 



She ivitli distracted passion pines iuvay, 



Detestt'tli coiiipuny ; all iiight, all day, 



Disrobed, with her ruffled hair unbound, 



And wet with liuniour, sits upon ihe ground : 



For nine loni^ days all sustenance forbears ; 



Her hunger cloy'd with dew, her thirst with tears : 



Nor ro^e ; but rivets on the god her eyes, 



And ever turns ber face to liim tliat flies. 



At length to eartli her stupid body cleaves : 



Her wan complexion turns to bloodless leiives. 



Yet sireak'd with red; her perisb'd limbs beget 



A flower, resembling the pale Violet; 



Which with the Sun, though rooted fast, doth move; 



And being changed, changith not her love. 



Sandt/s's Ovid. 



The origin of the names Narcissus, Hyacinth, Galanthis, Scilla, 

 and many other names for plants, come of certain similar antient 

 fables. Many of these names were changed for names of religious 

 import by the botanists of the middle ages, who cultivated the 

 sciences in the quiet retirement of their monasteries. 



