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Flowers and Plants 



He was bom at Tagasta, in Numidia, in 3 j4 ; his 

 mother Monica being an earnest Christian, and his 

 father a Pagan. 

 Aug. 29. — S. John the Baptist beheaded. S. John's 

 Wort. Hypercium elodes. 



This feast, according to Durandus, was formerly- 

 called Festum collectionis S, Johannis Baptistce^ or 

 the Feast of the gathering up of S. John's relics, and 

 afterwards by corruption Festum decollationis, the 

 feast of his beheading ^ 



September. 



Sept. I. — S. Giles, Abbot. S. Giles' Orpine. Sedum 

 telephium. 



S. Giles, or ^gidius, was born at Athens, and 

 came into France ; having first sold his estates, to 

 bestow the proceeds in charitable uses. 



' Wheatley. 



