
300 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 
SPREADING DOGBANE. (P/ate CL//Z) 
Apocynum androsemzfolium. 



















FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Dogbane. Rose colour. Fragrant. Mostly northward. June, July. 
Flowers: in terminal cymes; growing on thread-like flower-stalks. Calyx: 
five-cleft. Corolla: bell-shaped; five-lobed, and veined with a deeper pink. 
Stamens: five. Ovaries: united by an ovate stigma. Pods : large; long; slender. 
Leaves : opposite; ovate. An herb two to eight feet high; forked; branching. 
Juice: milk white ; sticky. 
Truly it is the poets and botanists who are mostly alive to 
the loveliness of the wildings of nature ; and we ever find them 
singing their praises to the exclusion of their more pretentious 
sisters that are under the gardener’s care. 
The tiny blossoms of the spreading dogbane remind us of 
the bells of the lily-of-the-valley ; but they have a delicate 
rose tint, and are exquisitely veined with a deeper colour. 
This is probably to let the bee know of their five glands of 
sweet nectar. 
The plant was formerly thought to be poisonous to dogs. 
VIRGINIA CREEPER. AMERICAN IVY. 
Parthenécissus quinguefolta. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Vine. White. Scentless. General. July. 
Flowers : small; clustered inacyme. f7zzt¢: small black, or blue berries. 
Leaves: divided into five lance-oblong leaflets. A vine climbing by means of 
tendrils and rootlets. 
It is quite distressing to think how often this most beautiful 
of our climbers is shunned and looked upon with distrust by 
the non-botanists simply because the difference between it and 
poison ivy is not known. ‘That ‘it has five leaflets and bluish 
berries should be remembered asa means to distinguish it from 
the three leaflets and whitish fruit of the harmful vine. 
It accommodates itself readily to almost every kind of soil, 
and has been extensively cultivated in Europe and in this coun- 
try for garden decoration. In the autumn the leaves turn a 
brilliant crimson. 
