Flowers and Plmtts 



June 24. — Nativity of S. John the Baptist. S. John's 

 Wort : Hypericum pulch7nim, Tutsam : Hyperi- 

 cum Androscemum. Chrysanthemums, also 

 Gooseberries. 

 Fuchs, writing in the sixteenth century, says 

 that the Germans in his time called Armoise or 

 Artemisia^ S. John's girdle; and that they made both 

 hats and girdles of it, and threw them into the fires, 

 which, on S. John's day, were lighted in the prin- 

 cipal thoroughfares. 



Scarlet Lychnis has been called C aiidelabrum. 

 ingens S. Jokannis. The French call it Croix de 

 Jerusalem 



June 29. — S. Peter, Apostle and Martyr. Yellow 

 Rattle. Rhina7ithus Galli, 

 Crucified at Rome, a.d. 65. 

 " The yellow floure, called the Yellow Cocks- 

 combe, which floureth now in the fields, is a sign of 

 S. Peter's day; whereon it is always in fine floure, 

 in order to admonish us of the denial of our Lord 

 ^ Floral Calendar, by a Lady." 



