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POPULAR FLORA. 
the other out) ; the 5 stamens on the corolla alternate with its lobes; the anthers generally 
more or less adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2 ; but the stigmas, and often the styles also., 
united into one ; the fruit two separate pods. Seeds generally many, and with a tuft of 
down at one end. 
Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and a wheel-shaped 5-parted border: style one. 
Leaves generally in whorls. Shrub, with large rose-colored flowers, ( Nerium ) ^Oleander. 
Leaves opposite, evergreen in the common creeping species. FI. blue, ( Vinca) ^Periwinkle, 
Leaves alternate, very many, narrow. Erect herbs with pale-blue salver-shaped flow. 
ers : seeds not tufted, ( Amsonia ) Amsonia. 
Corolla bell-shaped, white or pinkish : style none. Herbs, with opposite leaves. ( Apocynum ) Dogbane. 
Dogbane. Apocynum. 
1. Spreading D. Branches of the low erect stem widely diverging; leaves ovate or oval ; cymes few- 
flowered; lobes of corol- 
la recurved ; tube shorter 
than the calyx. Thickets, 
&c. A. andi'oscemifblium. 
2. Hemp D. or Indian Hemp. 
Stem and branches erect 
or ascending ; cymes few- 
flowered ; lobes of the co- 
rolla not recurved, the 
tube not longer than the 
calyx. A. cannabinum. 
466. Summit of a plant of Dogbane, 
No. 1, with flowers and pods 
467. Flowers, enlarged. 
468. Flower with the corolla cut 
away, to show the stamens. 
469. The stamens taken away, to show 
the pistils ; two ovaries, with their two 
large stigmas united into one mass, 
470. A seed, with its tuft of long hairs 
or down at one end. 
71. MILKWEED FAMILY. Order ASCLEPIADACEiE. 
Plants with milky juice, tough bark, and in other respects like the Dogbane family, but 
with the 5 short stamens all united by their filaments into a ring or tube, the anthers grown 
fast to the large stigma, and the grains of pollen in each cell cohering into a waxy or tough 
mass. Flowers in simple umbels. Pods a pair of many-seeded follicles : seeds furnished 
with a long tuft of silky down at one end (Fig. 229). The flowers in this family arc 
curious, but are too difficult for the beginner. The two common genera may be distin- 
guished as follows : — 
Corolla 5-parted, reflexed: five hoods to the stamens, with a horn in each, ( Asclepias ) Milkweed. 
Corolla, &c. as in Milkweed, but the hoods without any horn, (Acerates) Green-Milkweed. 
