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abundance of honey so bad in taste, as to compel the bee- 

 keepers who have some in their neighborhood to extract it 

 as soon as it is gathered, that it may not injure the quality 

 of their crop. 

 Bees also visit some of the plants of the grass family, such 



Fig. 185. 



SAINFOIN OE ESPAHCET. 



(From Vilmorin-Andrieux.) 



as corn and sorghum. A plant of this family, the Setaria, 

 or bristly foxtail grass, is known in France under the name 

 of accroche-aheilles, (bee-catcher). Its curved hairs grasp 

 the bees' legs, and the poor insects, unable to free themselves, 

 are soon exhausted,, and die. 



