'^48 NATIVITY TIDE. 



SEPT. 4. St. Rosalia, virgin, a.d. 1160. 

 SS. Marcellus and Valerian, martyrs, 179. 

 Translation of St. Cuthbert. 

 St. Ida, widow, 9th cent. 

 St. Ultan, bishop in Ireland, 655. 

 Comm. St. Rosa of Viterbo. 



Obs. St. Rosalia was daughter of Sinibald lord of Roses, and 

 Quisquina. She was born at Palermo, and, despising youthful 

 follies and the world, she made herself a cave on Blount Pelegrino, 

 where, after a life of severe penance, she died in 1160. 



St. Rose of Viterbo, celebrated March 8, is also commemorated 

 today. 



Soapwort Saponaria officinalis still in fl. 

 Whorled Coreopsis Coreopsis verticillata still H. 

 Meadow Saftron Colchicum autiunnale full fl. 

 Autumnal Crocus Crocus autumnalis ^. 

 Red China Rose Rosa Semperjlorus still fl. 

 Chinese Rose Rosa Indica still fl. 

 True M'Cartney Rose Rosa brachteatai\. 

 White China Rose Rosa Sitiica still fl. 

 Musk Rose Rosa moschata still fl. 



The Roses which are now in blow, as well as those which remain 

 in flower now and nearly all the year, are not of the most highly 

 scented sort, with the exception of the Musk Rose ; this last seems 

 to have been the one described by iMilton in Lycidas : 



The Musk Rose and the well attired Woodbine. 

 Here the Woodbine is evidently properly used as the wild Honey- 

 suckle, but in a passage in L' Allegro he speaks of the Sweetbriar, 

 and compares it with the Eglantine, which is in reahty another name 

 for it ; probably by Eglantine he wished to be understood to mean 

 some sort of wild Honeysuckle. The passage is this: 



To hear the Lark begin his flight. 

 And singing startle the dull ni:)ht. 

 Thro' the Sweet Briar or the Vine, 

 Or the twisted Eglantine ; 

 While the Cock with lively din 

 Scatters the rear of darkness thin. 

 And to the stack or the barn door 

 Stoutly struts his dames before. 



