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Bees at Wild St Johns Wort — Scabies, Cyanoglossum — Reseda wild very many Bees & Humbles — On Thistles many (curious because a Composite) Asparagus very small flowers & as much shut up, frequented by many Bees & Humbles — Humbles & common On silene, many plants of wh. have abortive stamens= Many Humbles on hedge

Linaria=

(Plenty of Humble Bees on Phlox Down, 1854, Sept.)

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In Spanish Broom by pulling back wings, pollen is ejected with violence in shower

On many Papilionaceous all wh. are in flower I saw Bees;— on Monk's Hood, brushing over stamens Egg Tree — I think never on the Galeum saxatile & other common kind —

I think not on Phlox though they examine it.— Little Dusty & Blue Butterflies at Clover,—Veronica—, Ranunculus in numbers = what insect can get honey out of long, curved nectar of Butterfly Orchis & Listera? Bryony saw common Bee on: