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INSECT MISCELLANIES. 



Yellow azalea (Azalea pontica. 



enumerates several other species of Kalmia, Azalea, 

 Rhododendron, and Andromeda, which produce poi- 

 sonous honey that proves injurious to dt^jzs, as was 

 ascertained by experiment. Upon m.an it oroduces 

 vertigo, dimness of sight, delirium, ebriety, pain in 

 the stomach and bowels, convulsions, profuse perspi- 

 ration, foaming at the mouth, vomiting, purging, and 

 sometimes temporary palsy of the limbs, though it 

 seldom proves fatal.* Recently, however, two per- 

 sons at iVew York are said to have lost their lives by 

 eating wild honey, supposed to have been collected 



♦ Barton, in Amer. Phil. Trans. 



