340 Important Honey Plants. 



names of shrubs being enclosed in a parenthesis. The date 

 of the commencement of bloom is, of course, not invaria- 

 ble. The one appended, in case of plants which grow in 

 our State, is nbout average for Central Michigan. Those 

 plants whose names appear in small capitals yield very 

 superior honey. Those with (a) are useful for other pur- 

 poses than honey secretion. All but those with a * are 

 native or very common in Michigan. Those written in the 

 plural refer to more than one species. Those followed by 

 a + are very numerous in species. Of course I have not 

 named all, as that would include some hundreds which have 

 been observed at the college, taking nearly all of the two 

 great orders, Compositae and Rosaceee. I have only aimed 

 to give the most important, omitting many foreign plants 

 of notoriety, as I have had no personal knowledge of them. 



