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me that no unfavorable report has come to him on the 

 effect of the flowers of these trees on bees. If the nectar 

 from these trees is bad for bees it is difficult to believe 

 that an observant and public-spirited citizen like Mr. 

 Cooper would not have noted it in all the years he has 

 had these trees about his estate. There are both domes- 

 ticated and wild bees in plenty about Mr. Cooper's groves. 

 No ill effects on these have been noted from the flowers 

 of any Eucalyptus. 



To make more sure, I have taken another half day 

 under an Eucalyptus tereticornis located in a gorge of the 

 Sierra Madre Mountains. Near the tree was a large bank 

 of orange-colored mimulus and bushes of the bear berry or 

 wild coffee. The mimulus was visited by a large wild bee 

 suggesting the bumble-bee. This big bee did not visit 

 any of the other neighboring flowers, neither did the 

 honey bees visit the mimulus. The honey bees seemed 

 especially fond of the small obscure greenish flowers 

 of the wild coffee. Numbers of bees visited the freshly 

 opened flowers of Eucalyptus tereticornis. No ill effects 

 appeared, neither could I find any dead bees under this 

 tree. In this case chickens were absolutely excluded 

 as scavengers. Ants visited the older flowers and seemed 

 to find something interesting at the base of the stamens. 

 No ill effects were noticeable in the ants. It would appear 

 probable, then, that the dead bees observed near the grove 

 of tereticornis at South Pasadena came to their untimely 

 end from causes independent of the flowers of Eucalyptus 

 tereticornis. 



One tree of Eucalyptus tereticornis at Dr. Wernigk's 

 again shows the peculiar trait, frequent in the genus Euca- 

 lyptus, of different colored flowers on the same tree and 



