. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Apocynece—A mson ia. ?99 A. salioifolia has a less erect habit, smaller flowers, and lanceolate leaves ; and A. clliata linear leaves. 3. AP6CYNUM. Erect perennial herbs with tough fibrous bark. Leaves opposite, mucronate. Flowers cymose, on axillary or terminal peduncles. Corolla campanulate, bearing five triangular appendages at the mouth of the tube.
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Apocynece—A mson ia. ?99 A. salioifolia has a less erect habit, smaller flowers, and lanceolate leaves ; and A. clliata linear leaves. 3. AP6CYNUM. Erect perennial herbs with tough fibrous bark. Leaves opposite, mucronate. Flowers cymose, on axillary or terminal peduncles. Corolla campanulate, bearing five triangular appendages at the mouth of the tube. Fruit of two slender follicles; seeds plumose at one end. There are three North American and one South European species. The name is a compound of , from, and kvo}", a dog, supposed to be poisonous to dogs, whence the English name Dogbane. 1. A. androscemifolium. Fly-trap.—A branching herb from 1 to 2 feet high with ovate glabrous petiolate leaves and small pale red flowers in loose cymes. Corolla-tube much longer than the calyx-lobes. An interesting and curious plant remarkable for the irritability of the gluti- nous throat-appendages, which collapse upon in- truding insects and retain them prisoners. A native of North America, flowering towards the end of Summer. A. cannahinum, Indian Hemp, is a vari- able species having several synonyms. The flowers are greenish white, and the corolla- tube does not exceed the calyx-lobes. A. VenUum is the European species. The Oleander, Mnum Oleander (fig. 168), is really a greenhouse plant ^'s- "«• ^"""^ °"'^'"''' fl°"''"= p'™'«- with us, though it will exist in the open air in the South-west of Eno-land if protected in Winter. It may be well to mention that tikis plant, so commonly seen in windows, is excessively poisonous. There are many handsome double-flowered varie- ties. ParechUes Thunbergii, better known in gardens under. Please note that these images are extracted from
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