. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 178 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE touching of these plants is the binding of the affect- ed parts in cloths saturated with " Pond's extract" {Hamamelis). A severe case should he referred to a physician at once. li. venenata I have never found m the Peniigewasset Yalley, but li. toxicodendron is on all of the meadows and many of the roadsides there. Leaving these wretched, harmful plants, we may now turn our atten- tion to their near neighbor, the handsome, spreading dogbane {^po- cynu
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 178 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE touching of these plants is the binding of the affect- ed parts in cloths saturated with " Pond's extract" {Hamamelis). A severe case should he referred to a physician at once. li. venenata I have never found m the Peniigewasset Yalley, but li. toxicodendron is on all of the meadows and many of the roadsides there. Leaving these wretched, harmful plants, we may now turn our atten- tion to their near neighbor, the handsome, spreading dogbane {^po- cynurn androsmmifolkvni), which is just beginning to unfold its delicate pink - white flower bells. This thin and delicate plant gives us a refreshing bit of sober blue-green in wide contrast with its surround- ings. Its leaves are not glossy, but characterized by what a painter would call a " dead ; The beautiful flowers, similar in shape to lily of the val- leys or twin flowers, are daintily tinged with pink; if we pick a cluster, the stem exudes a sticky, milk- white juice. This plant will not reach its prime until July, and then we may lumt through its leaves for the most beautiful little beetle which ever fa- vored the roadside with its presence. This jewel of a creature is called the dogbane beetle {Chrysochus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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