The Russians are familiar with a certain herb, known as the son-trava, a dream herb, which has been identified with the Pulsatilla patens, and is said to blossom in April, and to have an azure-coloured flower.

There, too, is an Elizabethan chalice and paten of the sixteenth century.

Just when the latter stole his host's chalice and paten, and ran away with them to the Land's End.

After this I gave the holy communion to these people on Easter day, and I hope, with the blessing of God to many, being assisted by the Nestorians, who lent me their chalice and paten.

It seemed to him, as he looked at her, that the treasures of St. Mark's, the jewelled chalices and patens, the agate and crystal vessels, the reliquaries of gold and precious stones, the candlesticks, the two textus covers of golden cloisonné, and even the turquoise cup itself, turned dull and wan and common by comparison with her beauty.

"Sic candentia colla, sic patens frons, Sic me blanda tui Neaera ocelli, Sic pares minio genae perurunt,

Then he blessed the bread and also the oil, to the best of my belief after which he lifted up the paten with the loaves upon it, in his two hands, raised his eyes, prayed, offered, and replaced the paten on the table, covering it up again.

Then he blessed the bread and also the oil, to the best of my belief after which he lifted up the paten with the loaves upon it, in his two hands, raised his eyes, prayed, offered, and replaced the paten on the table, covering it up again.

He broke the bread into several pieces, which he laid together on the paten, and then took a corner of the first piece and dripped it into the chalice.

He took the paten with the pieces of bread (I do not know whether he had placed it on the chalice) and said: 'Take and eat; this is my Body which is given for you.'

Then Jesus wiped the chalice, put into it the little vase containing the remainder of the Divine Blood, and placed over it the paten with the fragments of the consecrated bread, after which he again put on the cover, wrapped up the chalice, and stood it in the midst of the six small cups.

And the abbot, having consecrated, distributed among his brethren, reserving only a portion of the most holy bread and wine; and then, having bestowed on them all the kiss of peace, he took the paten and chalice in his hands, and went forth from the monastery towards the desert; whom the whole fraternity followed weeping.

"But the eldest brother sent two of the young men to seek their master, who, meeting with a certain Moorish people, learnt that a priest, bearing a paten and chalice, had passed before them a few days before, crossing the desert in the direction of the cave of the holy Amma.

And by the grave-side stood the paten and the chalice, emptied of their divine contents.

I flattered myself that Madame Moiselet, seduced by her eloquence, and by our merchandize, would bring out the store of the Curè's crowns, some brilliant of the purest water, nay, even the chalice or paten, in case the bargain should be to her liking.

Major Rousy Paten was the Washington nigger 'ministrator.

On the way back from Chartres the Duke of Burgundy's fool kept playing with a church-paten (called "peace"), and thrusting it under his cloak, saying, "See, this is a cloak of peace;" and, "Many folks," says Juvenal des Ursins, "considered this fool pretty wise."

[He hands him a small silver paten upon which there is a piece of bread.]

He places the paten on the table, beside him.]

Now all you gits is some no-count paten' medicine.

"Paas-bloeme" one suspects is the Rondout Valley origin of this term applied to a flower, possibly seen by the author on this occasion for the first timethe American pasque-flower, the Iowa prairie type of which is Anemone patens: the knightliest little flower of the Iowa uplands.

The communion plate includes a paten of about 1500.

Betrayed by a jealous woman, the Countess Platen, whose overtures he spurned, this too gallant lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, wife of the first of our Georges, was foully done to death in a corridor of the Leine Schloss by La Paten's hired assassins, while she looked smilingly on at his futile struggle for life, and gloated over his dying agonies.

505 Scorpius Scorpion ditto c.m. 506 multiflorum Portugal White ditto c.m. 507 patens Woolly-podded ditto c.m. 508 purgans Purging ditto c.m. 509 radiatum Starry ditto b.m.

When he died, "the Sangreal, the sacred lance, and the silver trencher or paten which covered the Grail, were carried up to the holy heavens in presence of the attendants, and since that time have never anywhere been seen on earth.