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522 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



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C. acuminata is a Southern large shrub or small tree, 10 to 

 20 feet high, found in the Alleghany Mountains, southward to 

 Georgia. Oval, pointed, finely toothed leaves are 3 to 7 inches 

 long. Petioles rather short, slender. Flowers sweet-scented, 

 in drooping racemes, with long bracts. Time, July and August. 



114, Spreading Dogbane 



Apocynum androsaemifolium. — Family, Dogbane. Color, 

 pale pink. Leaves, opposite, oval, pointed, often with red 

 petioles and veins. Time, June and July. 



Calyx, 5-parted. Corolla, 5-lobed, bell-shaped, with triangu- 

 lar bodies below the throat, opposite the lobes. Stametis, 5, 

 with short filaments situated on the base of the corolla. 

 Stigma, sessile, 2-lobed. Fruit, long and slender pods. Seeds 

 furnished with a tuft of long silky hairs. Bark composed of 

 tough fibres. Flowers, few and small, like tiny bells, in ter- 

 minal cymes. 



A loosely branched, spreading shrub, growing in light, moist, 

 or dry soil, everywhere, more northward. 



115. Indian Hemp 



A. canndbium is a shrub 2 or 3 feet high, with closely clus- 

 tered, erect, greenish-white flowers at the ends of the branches, 

 overtopped by the oblong, ovate, lance -shaped, or slightly 

 heart-shaped leaves. 



A common and variable bush, growing on banks of streams. 



116. Fever -bush. Spice - bush. Benjamin - bush. 

 Wild Allspice 



L'indera Benzoin. — Family, Laurel. Color, greenish yellow. 

 Leases, alternate, 2 to 5 inches long, broad near the apex, 

 pointed, tapering to the base, short-petioled, entire, the mid- 



