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* HONEY-LOCUST. 185 HONG KONG. second species, Gledltschia monosperma, is found from Kentucky and Missouri to the Gulf region and along the Atlantic from South Carolina to Florida. A third species, Oleditschia Texana, is a large tree in Texas, where it attains a height of more than a hundred feet. HONEY-MAKING ANT. Any of several species of ants of the genus Myrmecocystus, inhabiting Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Like other ants, they live in colonies, in subterranean nests, the entrance to which is in a small raised mound. The honey is obtained at night from small gnlls on oak- leaves by foraging workers which come home considerably distended with hone}'. With the honey they feed the other workers and the young in the hill, and what is left over is com- municated to a number of ants which simply serve as living receptacles. These live honey-bags cling to the roof of the cavern and move very little, and in time their abdomens become enor- mously distended. According to McCook, these living storehouses merely retain the honey until it is needed by the colony during the winter, wdien it is given out from the surcharged crops to feed the colonv. An ant with similar habits, but of the genus Melophorus, has been described by Lubbock from Australia, and still another genus (Plagiolepsis) has more recently been dis- covered in South Africa. In Mexico these ants are eaten by the natives. Consult: McCook, The Honey Ants of the Garden of the Gods, etc. (Phil- adelphia, 1881) ; Comstock, in Standard Natural Ilistarii. vol. ii. (Boston. 1884) ; Sharp, in Cam- liridqr Xatiiral Bistorii. vol. vi. ( Xcw York and London, 1000). See Ant. HONEYMOON, The. A comedy in five acts, by John Tobin. It was produced after the au- thor's deatli in 1805, and frequently reprinted. It is partly based on Shakespeare's Taming of the fihrcir. and its style is strongly influenced by the Eliziibcthan dramatists. " HONEY-MOTH. See Bee. HONEY-POD. See Mesquite-Tree. HONEY-STONE. See Melilite. HONEY-SUCKER. A bird of the family Meliphagid:c. or some related form, as the dia- mond-bird ; an indefinite term for a somewhat indeterminate assemblage of Oriental and Aus- tralian birds. Sec Honey-Eater. HONEYSUCKLE (AS. hunisiice. hunisuge, from hiinii/. honey -|- sucan, sHrjan, OHG. suger, Ger. saiigen, Lat. stigere, to suck), Lonieera. A genus of plants of the natural order Capri- foliacea". The species number one hundred or more, all of which are indigenous in the Xorth- em Hemisphere. They are shrubs, often twining, and have the (lowers either in whorls or in pairs. The calyx is short and five-toothed; the corolha, tubular-funnel-shaped, five-cleft, generally two- lipped; the fruit a three-celled and many- seeded berry. About half the specie= of Lonieera. aa well as manv hybrids, are in cultivation. The common honeysuckle, or woodbine of England {TyOnicera periehimenum). is very abundant in woods and thickets in most parts of Great Brit- ain. On account of its beaiitiful cream-colored flowers and their delightful fragrance, the honey- suckle is often planted in slinihberies. It is said to be the 'twisted eirlantine' of Milton. Very similar to this is the perfoliate honey- suckle [Lonieera caprifoliuin), with whorls of paler flowers, and remarkable for having the up- per leaves united so that an opposite pair form one leaf, through the middle of which the stem pas.ses. This peculiarity is confined to the flower- bearing shoots, and does not occur in the young runners; it is also mo.st perfect near the flower. This species is a native of the south of Eunjpc. and much planted, as, although less fragrant than the common honeysuckle, it flow- ers earlier. There are numerous other species, natives of Europe, Siberia, and North America. The lly-honcysuckle {l.onicira xi/losteum) is an erect shrub, a native of Europe and Asia, com- mon in shrubberies. Its branches are not in- frequently used in some parts of Europe for tubes of tobacco-pipes: and it is said to make good hedges in drj' soils. The trumpet-honey- suckle (I.onicera sempervirens), a twining green shrub, called in America the coral honeysuckle, is a native of the Southern I'nited States, often planted on account of its beautiful scented flow- ers, red on the outside and scarlet within. The Japanese honeysuckle [Lonieera Japonica) has become established in the eastern part of the United States, having escaped from cultivation. The berries of the honeysuckle are nauseous. The name honeysuckle is also given to shrubs very ditt'erent from this genus, but of which the flow- ers abound in honey, as to species of Banksia in Australia, Diervilla, Aquilegia, etc., in the United States. Rhododendron riscosiim is called swamp- honeysuckle in North America. HONEYSUCKLE ORNAMENT. See Ax- THEMIOX. HONEYWOOD. The hero of Goldsmith's plav The (looi/-.atured Man. He carries his generous folly so far as to resign to another the woman whom he loves and wlio loves him in secret. He is cured by a trick of his uncle. Sir ^'iniam, who returns from abroad in disguise and exposes the hypocrisy of the other suitor. HONTLEUR, oN'flcr'. A seaport town in the Department of Calvados, France, on the southern shore of the estuary of the Seine, seven miles from Havre, which lies on the opposite shore (Jlap: France, G 2). The town lost much of its former commercial importance, owin;i to the silt- ing of its harbor, and the proximity of Havre. Since 1860 a floating liasin and other harbor im- provements have revived in a measure its waning commerce, and thriving fishing industries and a considerable trade in agricultural and animal products arc carried on. The I'nited States is rep- resented liv a consular agent. Population, in 1001, 9010. Honfleur. founded in the eleventh centviri'. was of considerable strategical impor- tance during the wars between France and Eng- land. HONG-KIANG, hong'kyiing', or West River. Sec Si-KuNii. HONG KONG, bong kong (Chin.. Fragrant Strcanisl. An island belonging to Great Britain, lying ofT the southeast coast of China, from which it is separated by a narrow channel (one-fourth mile at its narrowest), known as Ly-e-Mun or Carplish Pass,' at the mouth of the Chu-kiaug or Pearl River (Map: China. D 7), It is 75 miles southeast of Canton, and 38 miles east of Macao. Consisting of a range of granitic hills, it lias little level land, its coastline is very irregular, and its shores are steep and precipi-