DOG’S BANE. 149 
Class Pentandria, order Digynia ; natural or- 
ders Contorte, Linneeus ; Apocinew, Jussieu. 
The Apocynum Androszmifolium grows often 
to the height of five or six feet, though its com- 
mon elevation is three or four. Its stalk is 
smooth, simple below, branching repeatedly at 
top, red on the side exposed to the sun. Leaves 
opposite, smooth on both sides, paler beneath, 
ovate, acute, on short petioles. “The flowers grow i 
in nodding cymes from the ends of the branches 
and axils of the upper leaves, furnished with mi- 
nute acute bractes. Calyx five-cleft, acute, much 
shorter than the corolla. Corolla white tinged 
with red, monopetalous, campanulate, with five 
acute, spreading segments. Stamens fiye, with 
very short filaments, and connivent, oblong arrow- 
shaped anthers, cohering with the stigma about 
their middle. ‘The nectary consists of five ob- 
long glandular bodies alternating with the sta- 
mens. Germs two, ovate, concealed by the an- 
thers. Stigma thick, roundish, agglutinated to 
the anthers. The fruit is a pair of slender linear- 
lanceolate follicles, containing numerous imbri- 
cated seeds each crowned with a long pappus or 
down, and attached to a. Remy central recep-. 
tacle. 
