APOCY'NUM ANDROSiEMIFO'LIUM. 
TUTSAN-LEAVED DOG’S-BANE. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. DYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
APOCYNEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
3 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1688. 
No. 99. 
The generic term, Apocynum, is deduced from the 
Greek APO,from; and kunos, a dog; by reason of 
its possessing, or, at least, having been supposed to 
possess, some peculiar qualities that take from these 
animals their vital functions. Androsaemifolium, 
from androsaemum, an old name applied to a species 
of Hypericum, commonly known as the Tutsan; and 
folium, a leaf ; in allusion to the similarity of their 
foliage. 
This is an extremely pretty herbaceous plant, hav- 
ing somewhat the appearance of an under-shrub ; and 
producing an abundant display of delicate pendulous 
flowers, during the latter part of the summer. 
It has not been much employed in medicine, 
though it appears, from the testimony of several 
American physicians, to possess active qualities. 
Professor Kalm, in his Travels into North America, 
notices its properties as inoffensive to some persons ; 
whilst to others it proves so noxious that the milky 
juice of the plant produced blisters on their hands, 
which he says was the case with one individual 
who merely plucked the flower from its stem in order 
to show it him. 
