by bumble bees than honey bees. April, October.* CATNIP. Nepeta cataria L. Mint family. Labiatae. Cultivated on Apiary Experimental Plats, 1904; only a few plants grew and bloomed. A few bees visited it. Soon died. July.* WILD BERGAMONT. Monarda fistulosa L. Mint family. Labiatae. "Dry soil throughout Texas, etc." (Coulter). College: along banks of ravines. Honey yield good but plants not abundant. May, July.* HORSE-MINT. Monarda clinopodioides Gray. Mint family. Labiatae. "Eastern and Southern Texas." (Coulter). Prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main yielders; honey compared to bass-wood in flavor. May, June.* HORSE-MINT. Monarda punctata L. (See frontis-piece). Mint family. Labiatae. "Sandy ground extending from the Atlantic regions to Southern and Western Texas." (Coulter). In open prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main crop yielders; honey compared with basswood. May, July.* "A good yielder in Brazos bottoms. College Station, Texas, in 1907, June." (E. Scholl). DRUMMOND'S SKULL-CAP. Scutellaria drummondii Benth. Mint family. Labiatae. "Common throughout Texas in damp rich soil." (Coulter). "On prairies, Kansas to Texas." (Small). Hunter: waste places in fields and prairies. Honey yield abundant in spring; much visited by bees. April, May.* COMMON HOARHOUND. Marrubium vulgare L. Mint family. Labiatae. "A common escape in waste or open ground." (Coulter). Hunter: most all parts of the South; fertile places; fence corners and pens; honey yield abundant; steady flow; dark amber colored. Claimed bitter by some. February, July.* COLEUS. Coleus blumei Benth. Mint family. Labiatae. College; ornament for borders, etc. Honey yield of no importance. Bees gather pollen from it only occasionally. July.* COMMON PIGWEED. Amaranthus retroflexus L. Amaranth family. Amaranthaceae. "Throughout Texas." (Coulter). Waste lands and fields; honey yield of no importance; some pollen. July, September.* THORNY AMARANTH. Amaranthus spinosus L. Amaranth family. Amaranthaceae. "From Tom Green County to Laredo." (Coulter). Annual weedy herbs. In waste places and cultivated soils presumably pollen only; not important. August.* MADEIRA VINE. Anredera scandens (L). Moq. Goosefoot family. Chenopodiaceae. "From the upper Pecos to the lower Rio Grande, (Ringgold)." (Coulter). Hunter. Texas; cultivated for shade on verandas; honey yield fair, bees work on it industriously, but the plants are scarce. May, September.* JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. Fagopyrum fagopyrum (L) Karst. Buckwheat family. Polygonaceae. Cultivated in fields in a small way; honey yield good on favorable moist mornings, not in dry weather. Honey very dark and strong in flavor; not important for bees in Texas. June, July.* "A good yielder to bridge over from early spring flower to cotton bloom at College Station, Texas." (E. Scholl).