DOGBANE FAMILY 



Calyx. — Five-lobed. 



Corolla-tube. — Slender, orifice small; border five-lobed; lobes obovate, 

 not overlapping. 

 Stamens. — Five inserted on corolla-tube. 

 Ovary. — ^Two capsules; style one; stigma one. 

 Poix.— Short. 



The Rose Vinca is a plant of erect growth which is used chiefly 

 for summer bedding, as the plants bloom continuously from the 

 time they are set out until frost. They are used largely in parks 

 and public grounds in the same way as geraniums. 



Other spectes of Apocynacea are: 



Oleander, Nirium olednder, of familiar house culture. The 

 flowers are showy, borne in terminal cymes, either deep-rose or 

 white, single or double. The plant came from the Levant. 



Amsbnia tahernmmonthna, a southern perennial, is grown in 

 the hardy border mostly with shrubbery. The leaves are wil- 

 low-like, the flowers small bluish bells in terminal panicles. The 

 foliage holds late. 



The two Dogbanes, Afdcynum androsamifblium, Common 

 Dogbane, an inmate of thickets, with its pretty, tiny, bell-corolla 

 with revolute lobes, cream-white marked with pink lines within; 

 and Common Indian Hemp, which loves wet banks of streams, 

 and bears flowers more crowded and erect, are well worthy of a 

 place in the wild garden. 



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