No. 7 APOCltJit witt. 49 



No. 7. 



APOCYNUM ANDROSEMIFOLIUM. 



English Name— BITTER DOGSBANE. 



French Name — Apocyn Amer. 



German Name — Fliegen Fangemdes. , 



OiFiciNAL Name — Apocynum radix. 



Vulgar Names — Milk-weed, Bitter-root, Honey- 

 bloom, Catchfly, Flytrap, Ipecac. 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Kalm, Michaiix, Pursli, 

 Schoepf, Elliot, Bigelow, fig. 36, &c. 



' Genus Apocynum— Calyx five clefl:. Corolla bell 

 shaped, five cleft. Five Corpuscles surrounding the 

 germ. Five Anthers alternating with them, conni- 

 vent and jfdhering by the middle to the stegyne or 

 cover of the pistils, which are two, small and conceal- 

 ed ; succeeded by two follicles, with numerous downy 



seeds. 



Species A. Andbosemifolium — Smooth, stem 



erect, dichotome ; leaves petiolate, opposite, entire, 



acute-; cymes nodding, lateral, and terminal, beyond 



the leaves. Follicles linear. 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, large, bitter 



and milky like the whole plant. Stem very smooth as 



well as the leaves, lactecent and with a tough fibrous 



, bark : from three to five feet high, with few branches 



' and leaves, cylindrical, often rose coloured : forked 



several times upwards. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 



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