Part 27

SWEET OLIVE. Elaeagnus angustifolia L.

Oleaster family. Elaeagnaceae.

College Station: cultivated ornamental shrub on campus; honey yield

good; bees work on blossom. April.*

SILK WEED. Asclepias sp.

Milk weed family. Asclepiadeae.

Beeville; on plains and prairies. Honey yield good but pollen

attaches to bee's feet and cripples them. March.*

DENSE-FLOWERED PHACELIA. Phacelia congesta Hook.

Water-leaf family. Hydrophyllaceae.

"Throughout Texas." (Coulter). Rich places and moist woods; honey

yield sparing. April, June.*

Phacelia glabra Nutt.

Water-leaf family. Hydrophyllaceae.

"Low prairies Arkansas and East Texas." (Coulter). On prairies

Eastern Texas. March, April.*

BORAGE. Borage officinalis L.

Borage family. Boragineae.

College: cultivated; honey yield good; bees working busily on it

during June. Old stalks die down in July and large lower leaves

protect root stock during severe drouth and sprout out for bees to

work on bloom in August. June, July.*

MORNING GLORY. Ipomoea Caroliniana Pursh.

Convolvulus family. Convolvulaceae.

Most common in cultivated fields. Honey yield light, pollen. June to

November.*

NIGHT-SHADE. Solanum rostratum Dunal.

Night-shade family. Solanaceae.