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led, for at its base are five nectar -bearing glands. The two long, 

 slender seed-pods which result from a single blossom seem inap- 

 propriately large, often appearing while the plant is still in 

 flower. Rafinesque states that from the stems may be obtained 

 a thread similar to hemp which can be woven into cloth, from 

 the pods, cotton, and from the blossoms, sugar. Its generic and 

 one of its English titles arose from the belief, which formerly 

 prevailed, that it was poisonous to dogs. The plant is con- 

 stantly found growing in roadside thickets, with bright, pretty 

 foliage, and blossoms that appear in early summer. 



HEDGE BINDWEED. 



Convolvulus Americamis. Convolvulus Family. 



Stem. Twining or trailing. Leaves. Somewhat arrow-shaped. 

 Flowers. Pink. Calyx. Of five sepals enclosed in two broad leafy bracts. 

 Corolla. Five-lobed, bell-shaped. Stamens. Five. Pistil. One, with 

 two stigmas. 



Many an unsightly heap of rubbish left by the roadside is 

 hidden by the delicate pink bells of the hedge bindweed, which 

 again will clamber over the thickets that line the streams and 

 about the tumbled stone-wall that marks the limit of the past- 

 ure. The pretty flowers at once suggest the morning-glory, to 

 which they are closely allied. 



The common European bindweed, C. arvensts, has white or 

 pinkish flowers, without bracts beneath the calyx, and a low pro- 

 cumbent or twining stem. It has taken possession of many of 

 our old fields where it spreads extensively and proves trouble- 

 some to farmers. 



PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 



Rubus odoratus. Rose Family. 



Stem. Shrubby, three to five feet high; branching, branches bristly 

 and glandular. Leaves. Three to five-lobed, the middle lobe prolonged. 

 Flowers. Purplish-pink, large and showy, two inches broad. Calyx. 

 Five-parted. Corolla. Of five rounded petals. Stamens and Pistils. 

 Numerous. Fruit. Reddish, resembling the garden raspberry. 



This flower betrays its relationship to the wild rose, and 

 might easily be mistaken for it, although a glance at the undi- 



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