FLORAL DIRECTORY.

Lurid Henbane. _Hyoscyamus Scopolia._

Dedicated to _St. Braulio._

~March 27.~

_St. John_ of Egypt, Hermit, A. D. 394. _St. Rupert_, or _Robert_, Bp.

of Saltzbourg.

_St. John_ of Egypt

Was a hermit, inured to obedience by an ancient holy anchoret, “who made

him water a dry stick for a whole year, as if it were a live plant.” He

walled himself up at the top of a rock, “from the fortieth or

forty-second to the ninetieth year of his age,” and “drew the admiration

of the whole world on him,” says Butler, by “the lustre of his

miracles,” and the “fame of his predictions.”