92 M. Auguste de St Hilaire's Account of a Case of Poisoning, 
of Pallas, has himself seen the honey collected upon the Azalea ; 
he found it of a dark-brown colour, and having a bitter taste ; 
and in several places of his works, he says that this honey causes 
giddiness, and produces insensibility *. 
Asia Minor is not the only country in which honey of a dan- 
gerous quality has been found. Roulox Barro, in his Voyage 
to Brazil, expresses himself on this subject as follows : “ The 
most inebriated of the Tapuies searched for wild honey and 
fruits, of which they make a beverage, which is called grappe , 
and of which, whoever drank, immediately vomited.” In the 
island of Maragnon, the bee Mumbuca sometimes, according to 
Piso *}*, rests upon the flower of the tree Tapuraiba , and then its 
honey, which is ordinarily delicious, becomes entirely bitter. 
Azzara is still more precise ; for he expresses himself as follows 
in his Voyage to Paraguay : 66 The honey of a bee named Ca- 
batatu , produces violent headach, and causes a degree of ine- 
briation at least as great as that brought on by spirits. That of 
another species occasions convulsions, and the most violent pains, 
which terminate at the end of thirty hours, without producing 
any troublesome consequence. The country people are well ac- 
quainted with these two species, and abstain from their honey, 
although its taste is as good as that of the others, and its co- 
lour is the same.” 
The honey of Pennsylvania, of South Carolina, of Georgia, 
and of the two Floridas, when it has been gathered upon Kal- 
ima angustfolia , latifolia , and hirsuta , and upon Andromeda 
Mariana , often occasions, according to Smith Barton J, vertigoes, 
to which succeeds a delirium, varying in character according to 
the individuals. “ The persons poisoned, adds the same author, 
<e experience pain in the stomach, convulsions, vomitings, and 
sometimes these accidents are followed by death.” 
It is not alone in Asia and America that examples have oc- 
curred of poisoning, caused by certain sorts of honey. Seringe 
relates, that two Swiss herds who had eaten honey gathered from 
Aconitum Napellus and lycoctonum , experienced violent con- 
vulsions, and were seized with a horrible delirium ; and that one 
* Reis. i. p. 276, 281, 297. 
X In Nicholson’s Journal, vol, v. p, 159-165. 
Bras. 56. 
