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CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
(Honeysuckle Family) 
LONICERA JAPONICA Thunb. Japanese honeysuckle. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— -Icetzger and 
Grant (277), 
SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS L. American elder. 
A deooction made "by pouring boiling water over the leaves, flowers, 
or berries of the elder was recommended as a wash for wounds to prevent 
injury from flies.— Porcher (308 , p. 448). 
A hot water extract from the green tops had no effect on silkworms, 
webworms, or rose aphids. — Mclndoo and Sievers (259 , p.23). 
SAMBUCUS NIGRA L. European elder. 
The leaves are noxious to insects, moles, etc.— Porcher (308, p. 449). 
A decoction of the leaves was recommended against Cydnus bi color 
(L.) on vegetables.— Hens chel (193 , p* 55). 
In Belgium a decootion was suggested as a spray to destroy cater- 
pillars on fruit trees.— Anonymous (20). 
VIBURNUM DENTATUM L. Arrowwood. 
Extracts were not repellent to the Japanese beetle.— lietzger and 
Grant (277) ♦ 
VIBURNUM PRUNIFOLIUM L. Blackhaw. 
Extracts of the root bark (N. F.) killed only 30 percent of the 
mosquito larvae tested.— Kartzell and VTilcoxon (188 ) » 
CARYOPHYLLACEAB 
(Pink Family) 
AGROSTEMMA GITHAGO L. Corncockle. 
An infusion has practically no effect on fly larvae.— Cook and 
coworkers (104 , p. 13) • 
SAPONARIA OFFICINALIS L. Soapwort. 
The action of snponln, when applied in concentrated solution to 
flies, was that of an intense irritant. There was protrusion of the 
proboscis and progressive paralysis. (Saponin is also derived from 
other species in this family, and even from members ofi, other fpmilies.J — 
Blyth and Blyth (64, pp. 451-452). 
