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_M. Valmont de Bomare remarks, that Linnzeus obser 
more correctly than any before him, that flowers had at 
bottom of their calices, some species of glands, full of m 
fluent liquid. That it was from these nectariferous g 
the bees delight to draw the honey, which fashions in t 
stomach. It was formerly believed that honey was a dew — 
which fell from heaven,—nobody belieyes so now,—it i 
known, on the contrary, that dew and rain are most prej 
dicial to honey. Bees have always known these glands 
which our modern botanists have lately discovered, and, in 
them, they have always sought and found their honey ; but 
sometimes they find this liquid effused on the leaves. __ 
An attentive observer, continues M. Bomare, following | 
-Linneeus, might, in spring, see trees, the maple (erabl 
among others, whose leaves are all covered with a species 
of honey, or sugar, which makes them shine, and if one o 
these leaves be placed on the tongue, the honey taste wi 
- soon be recognised. Whether that liquid remains in the 
glands, or out of the glands, it is the primitive material 
honey. It is that which the bee seeks after, and amasses, 
compose aliment, proper for the nourishment of itself an 
companions. Here is the system of M. Boisier Sauvag 
_ announced, but not so extensively developed, by Linnzeus 
ON POLLEN. 
Sect. 2. Pollen is a substance, extracted from the sta- 
mina of flowers, which the bees collect in dust, or small 
grains, which they bring home in little pellets, fixed to the 
hinder parts of their thighs. ‘This is a surplus booty, for they 
have their stomachs filled with the juices of the same flowe 
which they pumped out with their trunks, and stowed aws 
-in their first stomach, first for their own nourishment, an 
-aiterwards to be rendered by the mouth in the state of h 
ney, in the hive, for the employment and nourishment of — 
the interior workers. a 
_In summer, bees are continually seen leaded with pol- 
len, bringing it to the hive, in its natural state. As has ju 
been observed, it is only a surplus booty of the bolde: 
working bees without, and with which those within, accom- _ 
modate themselves for nourishment. This pollen, whick 
these home workers consume, becomes also honey, wax 
propolis, according as the want of the different mate 
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