HOMOGANGLIATA. 



Articulated Animals. 



No. 6. 

 APIS MELLIFICA. 



THE HIVE-BEE, OR THE HONEY-BEE. 



Mel, Honey. 



The animal substance. A medicinal aerent. 



Cera, Wax. 



Geog. Position. Domesticated everywhere. 



Quality. HONEY, sweet, viscid. WAX, insipid, inodorous. 



Potiter. HONEY, demulcent, nutritive, slightly laxative. 

 WAX, emollient. 



Use. HONEY. Catarrhal coughs, a vehicle for the admin- 

 istration of powders. WAX. Diarrhoea, dysentery; a 

 constituent of all cerates. 



SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS. 



Natural Classification. 

 4. DIVISION Homogangliata. CLASS Insecta. 



Ballard and Garrod, Mat. Med. 459. Jones, An. King. 286 Pereira, Mat. Med. 

 II. 795. Thomson, Mat. Med. 855, 1175. Lond. Disp. 431, 256. U. S. Disp. 

 473, 204. Wyatt, Nat. Hist. 137. EC. Disp. U. S. 258, 116. Kost, Mat. Med. 

 118. Farmer's Encyc. Brand, Encyc. Sci. 



GENUS APIS. 



MEL. Miel (F.), Gemeiner Honig (G., Dutch), Mele (It.), Miel (Sp.), Homing 

 (Swed.), Honning (Dan.), Miod (Pol.), Mel (Port.), Med (Russ.), Medhu (Hind, 

 and San.), Tayn (Tarn.), Ussub (Arab.), Shahid (Pers.), Tejee(Beg-), Honey (Eng.). 



CERA FLAVA. Cire jaune (F.), Wachs (G.), Cera gialla (It.), Cera gualda 

 (Sp.), Gult wax (Swed.), Zotty wosk (Pol.), Munjie Mellughoo (Tarn.), Un- 

 bleached wax (Eng.). 



CERA ALBA. Cire blanche (F.), Cera biancha (It.), Cera blanca (Sp.), Hwitt 

 wax (Swed.), Biaty Wosk (Pol.), Vulay Mellughoo (Tarn.), Suffiad mooru (Duk.), 

 Bleached wax (Eng.). 



THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS. 



Wings four, naked, membranous, veined longitudinally, the 

 superior of which .are always longer than the inferior. 



Mouth composed of jaws and a labium very narrow, (besides 

 the labium and mandibles,) forming a demi-tube more suit- 

 able for suction than mastication. 



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