254 NATIVITY TIDE. 



SEPT. 10. St. Nicholas of Tolentino, c. a. d. 1306. 

 St. Pulcheria, virgin and empress, 453. 

 SS. Nemesianus, Felix, Lucius, another Felix, 

 Litteiis, Polianus, Victor, Jader, Dativus, &c. 

 martyrs and confessors. 

 St. Finian, bishop. 

 St. Salvius, bishop, 580. 



Obs. St. Nicholas of Tolentino was born about the year 1245; 

 from his very infancy he seemed exempt from the weaknesses and 

 passions to vvhich children are generally liable. Before he had 

 completed his eighteenth year he made his profession in the reli- 

 gious order of St. Austin at Tolentino. He was sent successively to 

 several convents of his order ; in that of Cin;ole he was ordained 

 priest by the Bishop of Osimo. The last thirty years of his life he 

 resided at Tolentino, and his zeal for the salvation of souls produced 

 there wonderful fruit. His holy death happened on the 10th of 

 September, in 1306, and he was canonized by EugeniusIV. in 1446. 



St. Pulcheria, empress of the East in the filth century, is said to 

 have been a paragon of all the domestic and Christian virtues. She 

 exhibited a wonderful proof of the power of tlie religion she em- 

 braced to convert the numberless temptations to vice which an im- 

 perial court offered into a means of Christian perfection. She was 

 most renowned for charity to the poor. 



Autumnal Crocus Crocus officinalis fi. 

 Late Saffron Crocus serotinus fl. 

 Autumnal Meadow Saffron Colchicum autumnale fl. 

 Changeable Meadow Saffron Colchicum versicolor H. 

 Thickleaved Coreopsis Coreopsis crassifolia full fl. 

 Dyer's Coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria still fl. 

 Dogwood Starwort Aster corniformis full fl. 

 Netted Starwort Aster reticulatus full fl. 

 Almondleaved Starwort Aster amijgdalimis full fl. 

 Carolina Starwort Aster Carolinianus full fl. 



The blowing of tlie Autumnal Croci and Colchica is a phenomenon which 

 again would put us in mind of spring, were not the whole sum of the appear- 

 ance of Nature at this time of year so vei y different from those of the Frima- 

 veral Season. They continue to blow till after the feast of (iuardian Angels, 

 when their flowers fall to the ground and fade. Saffron Walden in Essex took 

 its first name from the abnndance of SaftVcn that was cnltivatfd in its neigh- 

 bourhood, wherewith the fields had formerly, and in some measure have still, 

 a beautiful purple appearance from Holy Rood till after Michaelmas. 



In a little note recorded in some calendar at this time of year we find the 

 following lines quoted from Lallu Rookh : 



Young Joy ne'er thought of counting hours, 



Till Care one snmnVer'^ morning 

 Set up among his smiling flowers 

 A dial, by way of warning. 



