NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 



Though the Dogbane is perennial, the stems die down 

 annually and are renewed again each spring. The bark is 

 of a deep red; the foliage, on distinct footstalks, ovate and 

 pointed. The flowers appear in loose spreading cymes; the 

 pale rose, somewhat striped corolla open bell-shaped, with 

 recurved lobes. The flowers are followed by long slender 

 red pods, meeting in pairs at the points in twos and 

 fours, the pods converging together; these pods open longi- 

 tudinally and let out the small winged seeds, each of which 

 is furnished with a tuft of delicate silk. The whole plant is 

 milky, more so than the next less showy-flowered species, 



INDIAN HEMP Apocynum cannabinum (L.). 



The flowers of this species are white, small, and in ter- 

 minal cymes ; the leaves are narrow, of a dark green, smooth ; 

 the fibre in the bark of this plant is very strong as well as 

 fine. The Indians use this thread in the manufacture of 

 fishing nets and lines, and probably in sewing. The banks 

 of streams and lakes seem to be the habitat of the Indian 

 Hemp. I am not aware that it has any scent. The scent of 

 the pink Dogbane is only given out after sunset. 



WHITE DWARF CONVOLVULUS DAY-FLOWER Convolvulus 



spithamoeus (Pursh). 



Although so delicate and fragile in texture, there is no 

 flower that loves the sunlight in its noontide power more 

 than this lovely wild Convolvulus. In this it differs from 

 the splendid Morning Glory, which opens early, in the 

 freshness and coolness of the morning but fades before the 

 noonday heat and light; only on cool cloudy days will it 

 display its glorious tints of royal purple, rose, crimson, and 

 exquisite shades of pink, pearly-blue, and white. But our 

 modest white flower may be seen blooming in open fallows 



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