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Flowers and Plants 



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May I.— S. Philip, Apostle and Martyr. Red Tulip. 

 Tulipa Gesneri, 

 S. Philip is supposed to have been the first of 

 our Lord's Apostles, and to have died at Hierapolis, 

 in Phrygia. 



S. James the Less, Apostle and Martyr. Red 

 Campion, Lychnis dioica rubra; and Red Bachelor's 

 Buttons, Lychnis dioica plena, 



S. James was martyred in the year of our Re- 

 demption 62, by being cast from a high tower; and, 

 not being then dead, was despatched while praying 

 for his murderers, with clubs and stones. 

 May 3. — Invention of the Cross. Poetic Narcisse. 

 Narcissus poeticus. 



Also — 



Against the day of Holy- Crosse, 



The crow-foot gilds the flowerie grass." 



May 6. — S. John Evangelist, ante Port. Latin. No 

 flower. 



