FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Starch Hyacinth. Hyacinthus racemosus.
Dedicated to St. Sixtus I.
April 7.
St. Aphraates, 4th Cent. St. Hegesippus, A. D. 180. St. Aibert, A. D. 1140. B. Herman Joseph, A. D. 1226. St. Finan of Keann-Ethich.
Chronology.
1520. Raphael d’Urbino died on the anniversary of his birth-day which was in 1483.
1807. Lalande, the astronomer, died at Paris, aged 70.