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 DwarFr CoNnvOLVULUS—DaY-FLOWER—Convolvulus 
spithameus (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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