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vervains, or verbenas, Verbena hastata, and V. stricta, also 
fog-fruit, Lippia lyceroides, another of this family, is val- 
ued very highly in Texas—it grows ten feet high and bears 
beautiful white flowers; the iron weeds, Vernonias, the mal- 
vas, Culver’s root, Veronica Virginica—another of the fig- 
wort family; Indian plantains, Cacalias, and viper’s bugloss 
—the so-called blue thistle—all contribute to the apiary in 
July; the viper’s bugloss, Echium vulgare, though most 
common South is very abundant at Beeton, Canada, Mr. 
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Cabbage Palmetto, 
Jones has it growing all about his apiaries. I have never 
seen it in Michigan. It is a near relation of borage, and 
does not belong even to the family—Composite—of the 
thistles. 
In California, the blue gum and the red gum, Eucalyp- 
tus globulus, and E. rostrata, introduced from Australia, 
furnish honey from July and August till December. 
The catalpa, a very rapid growing tree, throws its large, 
showy blossoms to the breeze and bees in July. It is rap- 
