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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. 1854.] THE CATHOLIC LAYMAN. 113 frail bodies, and which, we believe, ere long, will be developed into a nobler spirit when He shall come for whom we look, even the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, " who shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." -Philipians iii., v. 20-21. The assured hope of a joyful resurrection, throws a light over the evening of life, as the prospect of another spring-time, 'reconciles us to the fading glories of nature. Would that we could all1 say with Job, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and, though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet, in my flesh, shall I see God."-Job xix., v. 25, 26, 27. If so, we may regard the departure of summer and the approach of winter, the advance of time, and the increase of years and infirmities, and the prospect of death itself, without alarm and without regret. But, though the garden is bereft of its chief beauties, the general landscape is, perhaps, more beautiful and enchanting than ever. The clear and cloudless sky of Septeinber, and the calm serenity that its peaceful blue betokens, are in keeping with " the universal tinge of sober gold," and combine to form a scene of rich splendour, mellowed and softened into repose. There is much, also, to compensate in the fresh foliage of the evergreens, and the after-grass of the meadows. In the corn fields, we meet a very showy flower with large, deep, yellow petals, and leaves clasping their stem-the CORN MARIGOLD, or yellow ox eye (Chrysanthemum sagetum). It is larger and taller than the garden Marigold, and like a large daisy. The French call it " La Marguerite jaune," or yellow daisy. In Southern Europe, our own garden Marigolds are wild flowers, and are found growing in the corn-fields, as our Corn Marigold grows here. There is another of this family of vagrants-the many-eyed Marigold-which the farmer catches trespassing among his corn, in its gay, yellow dress. The Marigolds all belong to the chrysanthemum tribe, of which these wild ones form our only native specimens. Our garde o chrysanthemums are natives of China. Their botanical 'ame, chrysanthemum, signifies, in the Greek, gold-flower; so our native specimens were called by Chaucer, and the early English poets, gold flowers; and, in England, they are still called goules, or goulans. In Denmark, the farmers found this gay but too prolific intruder so injurious to agriculture, that a law was passed for its extirpation, and a penalty imposed upon the sluggard husbandman who endangered the safety of his neighbours' fields by harbouring the proscribed flower. Among the flowers of the preceding month which still remain, is the brilliant SCARLET LYceINrs (Lychnis Chalce-