Ursine Garlick. _Allium Ursinum._
Dedicated to _St. Leo_ IX., Pope.
[96] Butler.
[97] Golden Legend.
[98] Observer, Nov. 15, 1818.
~April 20.~
_St. Agnes_, of Monte Pulciano, A. D. 1317. _St. Serf_, or _Servanus_,
Bp. 5th Cent. _St. James_ of Sclavonia, or Illyricum, A. D. 1485.
Easter Term, 1825, _begins_.
On this day the sun enters Taurus ♉ or the bull, at 9 h. 50 m. A. M., at
which period black cattle produce their offspring, and hence probably
the sign is represented by the male animal. The Greeks affirmed it to be
the bull into which Jupiter metamorphosed himself, when he visited
Europa, but this sign was figured and worshipped throughout the East as
the god _Apis_, or a symbol of the sun, before the Greek zodiac existed.