FAMILiiE. {Jph. **. c. 2. a.) 16.3 



six. inches, and composed entirely of the leaves of 

 the rose and other trees. They consist usually of 

 six or seven cells ; each cell is shaped like a thim- 

 ble^, the conve^: end of the second fitting closely 

 into the open end of the first, the third into the 

 second, and so on with respect to the rest. Al- 

 though these cells are honey tight, which is some- 

 times found in them in a liquid stfte, yet the 

 portions of leaf of which they are made are not 

 glued together, neither is there any other art used 

 to fasten them, than what appears in the nicety 

 with which they are adjusted to each other. The 

 interior surface of each cell consists of three pieces 

 of leaf of equal size, narrow at one end, but grow- 

 ing gradually wider towards the other, where the 

 width equals half the length. One side of each of 

 these pieces is the serrate margin of the leaf from 

 which it was taken. In forming the cell, the 

 pieces of leaf are made to lap one ovei" the other^ 

 so that the serrate side is kept on the outside, and 

 that which has been cut, within : thus a tube is 

 first formed, and in this way it is coated with three 

 or four layers (0), the exterior covering being made 

 of larger pieces than the interior. In coating, the 

 provident little animal is careful to lay the middle 

 of each piece of leaf over the margins of those that 

 form the first tube; thus the junctions arq covered 

 and strengthened. At the closed end, or narrow 

 extremity of the cell, the leaves have a bend given 



(0) Sometimes there are more, K, 



M a them 



