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Persephone, 268. 



Persia, 180, 249, 256, 257. 



Perspiration, 139. 



Peter Martyr, 174. 



Peter of Capua, 324. 



Pliiladelphia, 157, 191. 



Phrygia, 219. 



Pigneron, 92. 



Pindar, 270, 291. 



Piping of queen, 125, 160. 



Plant louse, 198. 



Plato, 286, 297, 317, 318. 



Pleiades, 195. 



Pliny, 12, 312, 362; on adulterated 

 honey, 187; on bad smells, 151; 

 on bees as augurs, 284 ; on bees as 

 prophets, 286, 287 ; on colored wax, 

 318 ; on cornel, 192 ; on diseases 

 of bees, 175 ; on drones, 129, 130 ; 

 on honey as food, 204 ; on honey of 

 Attica, 181 ; on honey poisonous to 

 flies, 190 ; on horses stung, 108 ; on 

 honeyed vinegar, 221 ; on honeyed 

 wine, 222; on hydromel, 218; on 

 incubation, T38; on king-bee, 113, 

 122; on large comb, 188, 381, on 

 loss of sting, 102 ; on maddening 

 honey, 190 ; on origin of honey, 

 195 ; on origin of wax, 86 ; on oxy- 

 meli, 221 ; on poisonous honey, 189, 

 193; on propolis, 151; on queen 

 cells, 121; on robber-bees, 172; on 

 smell, 51; on smoking bees, 155; 

 on swarming, 160 ; on transporting 

 bees, 3S5 ; reason why bears attack 

 hives, 168; remedy for stings, loi ; 

 transparent hives, 363 ; use of wax, 

 88; wax masks, 315. 



Plutarch, 252, 298, 310. 



Po, 386. 



Poison, antidote for, 109; effect on 

 toad, 171; effects of, 100, 109; 

 flavor of, 100; honey, odor of, 84; 

 medicinal properties, 1 11 ; origin of, 

 100 ; preserved in honey, 107 ; season 

 of greatest virulence, 100; volatile, 

 soluble, 107. 

 Poison-ash, 192. 

 Poison-bag, 14-101. 



Poison-gland, 96. 



Poison-sac, 94, 96, 97, loi, 102. 



Poisonous honey, 1S8, 1S9, 190. 



Poisonous honey plants, 189-194. 



Poisonous nectar, 37. 



Poland, 168, 332, 373. 



Poles, 337, 342. 



Pollen, as food for larvje, 123; 

 changed into wax, 86 ; combs, 79 ; 

 cross-fertilization, 1S2 ; digested, 

 84; first spring work, 148; forms 

 bee poison, 100 ; gathering-hairs 

 for, 77 ; method of gathering, 78, 

 148; pollen baskets, 77, 78, 120; 

 substitutes for, 148 ; unloading pol- 

 len, 148; wild bees' pollen, 15; wild 

 rose, 37 ; willow, 148. 



PoUio Romilius, 222, 299. 



Pomerania, 354. 



Pontus, 182, 189, 190, 282. 



Pope Urban VIII., 323. 



Porphyry, 268, 269, 270, 282. 



Potrimpos, 332, 333. 



Prayers to bee, 327, 328, 336, 337, 



344 • 

 Prescriptions of honey, 85, 252. 

 Preserving power of honey, 86 ; dead 



bodies, 252, 253, 344 ; fruits, 204. 

 Priapus, 279. 

 Proboscis, 19-27, 76, 142. (See 



Tongue.) 

 Propolis, 147, 149, 150, 151, 173. 

 Proserpine, 268. 

 Proteus, 271. 

 Proverbs, 259. 

 Psalms, 258, 259. 

 Pul villa, 73. 

 Punjab, 368. 

 Pupa, 125. 

 Puranas, 232. 



Purity in connection with bees, 355. 

 Pyrenees, 341. 



QuARLES, 347. 



Queen, 113-129; deprived of antennse, 

 44, 45; excrement of, 152; in centre 

 of swarm, 163 : leads off swarm, 159; 

 never stings, 140; no pollen basket, 

 78 ; note of queen, 48 ; not allowed 



