ANGELS TIDE. 281 



OCT. 7. St. Mark, pope and confessor, a.d. 336. 



SS. Sergius and Bacchus, martyrs. 



SS. Marcellus andApuleius, martyrs. 



St. Justina of Padua, virgin martyr, 304. 



St. Osith, virgin, 870. 



06s. St. Mark was by birth a Roman : he succeeded St. Sylvester 

 in the apostolic chair on the 18th of January, 336. He held that 

 dignity only eight months and twenty days, dying on the 7th of 

 October following. 



St. Justina suifered at Padua in the persecution of Dioclesian. 

 St. Justina is a patroness of Venice, next to St. Mark, and her 

 image is to be seen on Venetian coins. 



St. Osith was a daughter of a Mercian prince, and married young 

 to a King of the East Angles, but the same day obtained his consent 

 to live always a virgin. That king, confirming her in her religious 

 purpose, bestowed on her the manor of Chick, in which she built a 

 monastery. She had governed this house many years with great 

 sanctity, when she was crowned with martyrdom, being beheaded 

 for her constancy in her faith and virtue about the year 870. 



Indian Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum Indicum f.fl. 



This plant sometimes flowers much sooner than today, but at others is so 

 late that its floHerinij is imperfect, from the cold weather which sets in, as we 

 have observed in Sussex. 



Grapes are now quite ripe in the north of France, England, Flander*, and 

 other countries haviiii? the same isothermal line. In Italy, Portugal, Spain, 

 and the south of France and Germany, they are ripe nearly a month sooner 

 The sorts of Grapes are so numerous that virc;il compares them to the sands 

 on the seashore, and makes them equally innumerable with them. 



Gossamer is still very common in fine weather. White, in his Natural His- 

 tory of Selborne, vol. i. 326, tells us, "The remark thiit 1 shall make on the 

 cobweblike appearance called Gossamer is, that, strange and superstitious as 

 the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubt but that 

 they are the realproiluctions of small Spiders, which swaim in the fields in fine 

 weatherin autumn, and have a power of shooting out webs from their tails, so 

 as to render themselves buoyant and liffliter than air." See the prognostica- 

 tions to be deduced from the great abundance of this plieriomenou in the Pocket 

 Encyclopaedia of Natural Phcnoniena, NichoUs, 8vo. 1827. 



\Ve will close today with the following verses, sent us by a friend, on seeing 

 the little flower called Forget me Not l^eronica chamoedrys : 



Forgel me Nol. 

 Small fragile weed, while thus 1 view 

 Thy constant tint of constant blue, 

 I pray, in life whate'er my lot. 

 May those 1 love Forget me Not. 



VVhen parting from the friends I loved, 

 My beating heart with anguish moved. 

 While trom the shore the vessel shot, 

 They each exclaim'd, Forget me Not. 

 When last I left my native plain. 

 Perhaps ueverto return again, 

 Each tree and shrub on tliat dear spot 

 Appear'd to say. Forget me Not. 

 From this, thou little lonely weed, 

 My love for thee does all proceed; 

 To think of thee will bring to thouglit. 

 That those I love Forget me Not. F. S. C. 



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