Yet they were not true bees; they were two-winged, [297]

They were "the Bees" of which Virgil had sung, [298]

CHAPTER VII.—THE BEE IN THE FIELDS.

Contrast between the Plant and the Animal, [301]

Yet the one life in some points approaches the other, and a certain sympathy exists between the flower and the winged insect, [302]

What the flower owes to the bee, [303]

And how far the bee is indebted to the flower, [303]

A panegyric upon the bee, which gives new life to vegetation, [304]

The bee's visit to the flower, and what takes place, [305]

It gives and it receives; evening and morning, [306]