392 



PASTUKAGE AND OVEKSTOCKING. 



Borage Family: — Borage (Fig. 143), Viper-bugloss, 

 Comfrey, Phacelia, Virginia Lungwort, Hound tongue, 

 Gromwell, False Gromwell. 



Scrophularia: — Scrophularia nodosa (Simpson's honey- 



Fig 146. 

 ASCLEPIAS TUBBBOSA. PLEURISY ROOT. 



Mg. 145. 

 ASCLEPIAS 8YRIACA. 



plant), Veronicas (Fig. 144), Yellow Jessamine of the 

 South, whose honey is poisonous. (Db. J. P. H. Brown.) 



Asclepiadaceoe : — The common Milk- 

 weed (Fig. 146), or Silkweed, Asclepias 

 Syriaca, is much frequented by bees, 

 but these visits are often fatal to them. 

 All the grains of pollen of the Silkweed, 

 in each anther, are collected in a com- 

 pact mass, inclosed in a sack; these 

 sacks are united in pairs (a. Fig. 147) 

 by a kind of thread, terminated by a 

 small, viscous gland. These 



Fig. 147. 

 POLLEN OF MILKWEBD. 

 tnreaas a. sacs of pollen in 

 ', the same a*^ 

 ) a bee's foot. 



to the labial palpi (46) of the bees, who 

 cannot easily get rid of them, and per- 

 ish. In some parts of Ohio and "Western Elinois, a variety 



stick to the feet (6. Fig. 147) and often fachlkto:*^^ '*™ **' 



(From "ABC of Bee 

 Cnltm-e.") 



