FLORAL DIRECTORY.

Egyptian Water Lily. _Nelumbo Nilotica._

Dedicated to _Our Lady ad Nives_.

~August 6.~

_The Transfiguration of our Lord._ _St. Xystus_, or _Sixtus_ II., Pope

and Martyr. _Sts. Justus_ and _Pastor_, A. D. 304.

_Transfiguration._

This, which stands in the English almanacs on the present day, is the

name of a popish festival, in celebration of the glorified appearance of

Christ on mount Tabor.

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