. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 72 iy//.D, OA' XAT/l'E ^A'S Indian —Apocy/ium cannai>inuiii, (L.) The flowers of this species are white, small, and in terminal cymes, the leaves are narrow, of a dark green, smooth ; the fibro in the bark of this i)lant is very strong, as well as fine : the Indians use this thread in the manufacture of fishing nets and lineS; and probably in sewing. The banks of streams and lakes seem to be the habitat of the Indian Hemp. I am not aware that it has any
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. 72 iy//.D, OA' XAT/l'E ^A'S Indian —Apocy/ium cannai>inuiii, (L.) The flowers of this species are white, small, and in terminal cymes, the leaves are narrow, of a dark green, smooth ; the fibro in the bark of this i)lant is very strong, as well as fine : the Indians use this thread in the manufacture of fishing nets and lineS; and probably in sewing. The banks of streams and lakes seem to be the habitat of the Indian Hemp. I am not aware that it has any scent. The scent of the pink Dogbane is only given out after sun-set. Whitk l^wARK Convolvulus— spithtviueus, (I'ursh.) -Couvolruhts -Mthough so delicate and fragile in texture, there is no flower that loves the sunlight in its noon-tide power more than this lovely wild Convolvulus. In this, it differs from the splendid Morning (llory, which opens early, in the freshness and coolness of the morning, but fades before the noon-day heat and light: only on cool cloudy days will it display its glorious tints of royal purple, rose, crimson, and exquisite shades of pink, pearly-blue, and white. But our modest white flower may be seen blooming in open fallows, and wild grassy plain- lands, where it has little shade unless from the surrounding herbage. The plant is seldom more than twelve or eighteen inches in height, tapering from a broad l)ase to a slender leafy point. The foliage is whitish or hoary grey, from a minute downy covering. These grey leaves are hastate, not arrow-shaped, pointed and lobed at the base; the lower leaves on long foot-stalks, the upper ones dimmished to mere bracts. The flowers are large, purely white, open bells, on long stalks—only two opening each day. The stem of the plant is somewhat woody, slightly branching or sim))le, and forming a pyramid of slender apex, twining slightly and clas])ing the stalks of grasses and neighbouring heibs. O
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