INQUIRY concrrwmne THe HONEY-BEE. 24t 
rifing above the level of the waves, as this would fenfibly 
affe& the truth of the feale. Buta little experience would 
foon make the ufe of the inftrument familiar. 
Ne. XXXI. 
‘An Inquiry into the Queftion, whether the Aris MELLI- 
FICA, or TRUE HoneEy-BEE, is a native of America, 
Read Feb. CY O many animals and vegetables have been 
agit et introduced into the countries of America, 
fince the great difcovery of Columbus, that naturalifts 
are frequently at a lofs to determine, which fpecies are 
natives, and which are foreignérs. This is particu- 
larly the cafe with refpe& to plants. Many of thofe fpe- 
cies which are now diftributed, in profufion, through ex- 
tenfive tracts of countty; which aré not merely confined 
to thé gardens, the meadows, the fields, and wafte pla- 
ces, but have even infinuated themfelves into the thickeft 
forefts and the moft lofty mountains, growing luxuriant- 
ly in their new fituations, are, undoubtedly, European 
and other colonies, which have been introduced either by 
accident or by the hands of man. At fome future day, 
I fhall communicate the refult of my inquiries on this fub- 
je& to the Philofophical Society. Meanwhile, I ‘hall 
mention a few inftances, which more readily occur to me. 
The Plantago major, or Greater-Plantain, the Verbafcum 
Thapfus, or Great White-Mullein, the Chenopodium 
album, or Common Wild-Orache, the Antirrhinum ZLinaria,; 
or Yellow Toad-Flax, the Hypericum perforatum, or 
Common St. John’s wort, the Leontodon Taraxacum, ot 
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