TASTE IN INSECTS. 



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Rose laurel (Rhododendron ponticum). 



azalea {Jlzalea poniicd), both of which are poison- 

 ous and indigenous in Asia Minor. Father Lam- 

 berti also found the same plants and poisonous 

 honey in Mingrelia.* 



During the autumn and winter of 1790, the honey- 

 collected near Philadelphia was found to be so fatally 

 deleterious to those who partook of it, that it attracted 

 the attention of the American Government, and a 

 minute inquiry was ordered to be instituted. The 

 s-esult was, that the poisonous honey was traced to 

 the flowers of the Kalrnia latifolia. Dr Barton 



* Mission to Mingrelia, in Thevenot's Collection. 



