34 



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 dogs, as was 

 ascertained by experiment. Upon man it produces 

 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 New York are said to have lost their lives by 

 eating wild honey, supposed to have been collected 

 * Barton, in Amer. Phil. Trans. 



