292 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

It is probably the Rhododendron ponticum which produces
this poisonous effect on the honey; and the Kadmia angus-
tifolia of America seems to be equally destructive, as was
proved by a party of adventurers, who took some hives
from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, hoping that the savannahs
of that country would be favourable to the increase of the
bees, and the enterprise seemed very hopeful, as the bees
multiplied surprisingly; but unfortunately, the honey proved
to be highly poisonous, producing delirium, with various
other painful symptoms, and in some instances even death
ensued. This noxious honey is of course eaten with perfect
impunity by the little gatherers, so that with regard to them-
selves, though not to their pilferer, man, the following lines
of Pope are strictly correct.

“In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true,
From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew P”

Onpzr LEPIDOPTERA.
The Moth belongs to the division Nocturna, or night-
fliers, of the Order Lepidoptera, and is principally distin:
guished from the other two, the Diurnal (Butterflies) and the