over Southwest Texas. Honey yield very abundant, a main yielder of fine quality honey. April.* ROUND-FLOWERED CATSCLAW. Acacia Roemeriana Schlecht. Pulse family. Leguminosae. "Throughout Texas south of the Colorado and west to El Paso." (Coulter). Hunter: in brushy woodlands; honey yield is heavy, of fine quality, but plants not abundant. April and May.* Acacia amentacea DC. Pulse family. Leguminosae. "From the Guadalupe to the lower Rio Grande and west to the Pecos." (Coulter). Very plentiful throughout Southwest Texas, on prairies. Honey yield of no importance. Bees gather pollen from it occasionally in early summer.* PLUM. Prunus domestica L. Rose family. Rosaceae. Hunter: in orchards and escaped. Honey yield good with "fruit bloom." Helps to build up colonies of bees. February.* WILD PLUM. Prunus (sp.) Rose family. Rosaceae. College Station: planted on campus. Honey yield good but of short duration. March.* PEACH. Amygdalus Persica L. Rose family. Rosaceae. "In waste places and cultivated grounds throughout the United States." (Small). Cultivated in orchards; honey yield good; with "fruit bloom" builds up colonies in spring. January to April.* BRIDAL WREATH. Spiraea Virginiana Britt. Rose family. Rosaceae. Cultivated ornamental shrub. Honey yield unimportant; bees sometimes busy on it. March.* DEW-BERRY. Rubus trivialis Michx. Rose family. Rosaceae. "A Southern blackberry, apparently common in Eastern, Southern and Western Texas." (Coulter). Common wild, little cultivated; bees on it busy; honey and pollen. February, April.* ROSE. Rosa Tourn. Cultivated widely; honey yield unimportant; pollen gathered from it sometimes. Spring, summer and fall.* APPLE. Malus malus (L) Britt. Rose family. Rosaceae. Cultivated in orchards; honey yield early; helps in brood rearing; good where abundant. March, April.* PEAR. Pyrus communis L. Rose family. Rosaceae. A much cultivated fruit tree, important for early honey and pollen. February, March.* HAWTHORN. WHITE THORN. Crataegus spathulata Michx. Rose family. Rosaceae. "A species of the Gulf States and extending to the lower Colorado in Texas." (Coulter). In woodlands and creeks; good for honey and pollen. April.* HAWTHORN. WHITE THORN. Crataegus arborescens Ell. Rose family. Rosaceae. "A species of the Gulf States and extending to the lower Colorado in Texas." (Coulter). College Station; in woodlands and creek banks; honey yield good, bees found busily on it; also pollen. April.* CREPE MYRTLE. Lagerstroemia Indica L. Loose strife family. Lythraceae. "In waste places in and near gardens; widely cultivated and sparingly naturalized from Maryland, Florida and Texas." (Small). Cultivated ornamental on campus; honey yield occasionally good and visited much by bees. June, October.* JUSSIAEA. Jussiaea repens L. Evening Primrose family. Onagrarieae.