SOURCES OF HONEY. 53 
cach little floret secretes so minute a quantity, that the 
task of obtaining it is a slow one. It is only visited 
when more copiously yielding flowers are scarce. Bush 
Honeysuckle (Diervilla trifida), is a particular favorite. 
SINGULAR FATALITY ATTENDANT ON SILK-WEED. 
Milk-weed or Silk-weed (Asclepias Cornutt), fig. 11, is 
another honey-yielding perennial, but a singular fatality 
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Fig. 11.—M1LK-wEeEpD, 
befalls many bees while gathering honey from it. Mr. 
Quinby observed during the period this plant was in 
bloom, that a number of the bees belonging to hives 
not full, were unable to ascend the sides to the comb; 
there would be sometimes thirty or more at the bot- 
tom in the morning. On searching for the cause, 
he found from one to ten, thin, yellow scales, of a 
long pear-shape, and about the twentieth part of an 
inch long, attached to their feet. At the small end, 
was a black, thread-like -substance, from a ‘sixteenth 
