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APOCYNUM ANDROS^MIFOLIUM. TUTSAN*
» LEAV'D, or FLY-CATCHING DOGSBANE*
4-4-5^4-4-^^^^
Clafs and Order.
I PENTANDRIA DIGVNIA*
^^ Generic CharaEl.er.
^^V~ Cor. campanulata. Glandule 5 cum ftaminibus alternas.
^^1 Specific Character and Syncvyms.
fFAPOCYNUM -androftemifolium caule rccllufculo herbaceoi
foliis ovatis utrinque glabria, cymis termi-
nalibus. Lir.'i. Syft. Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr.
p. 2 58. Ait. Kew. v. i . p. 303.
APOCYNUM canadenfe; faliis andrufasmi majoris. Bocc.
jicc. 3 5. t. 1 6. /. 3. MoriJ. Hift. 3 . p. 609.
/. 15. /. 3. /. 16.
In addition to the powerful recommendations of beauty and
fragrance, the Tutfan-leav'd Dogfbane interefts us on account'
ol the curious ftruQure of its flowers, and their fingular
property of catching flies.
This fpecies is a native of different parts of North-America ;
Mr. W. HALE, of Alton, Hr.nts, who refided at Halifax in
i\ova-Scotia feveral yeau, brought me fome feeds of it ga-
tV.c'ed in that neighbourhood, which vegetated, and produced
tiowering plants: it is not new to this country, being known
to MORISON who figures it, and to MILLER ,who cultivated
it in 1731. .
It is a hardy perennial plant, growing to about the height
of a foot and a half, or two feet, and flowering from the
beginning of July, to September; it has a creeping r,vjt,
v,!.ereby it increafes greatly in light dry foils, a-nd warm
lunations, fo as even to be troublefome.; it will not thrive in
a vet foil; with us it produces feed-vefiels but rare'.y; is
propagated by parting its roots in Autumn or Spiing; Mi LLER:
rccommends March as the moft'proper feafcn, or it iray be
railed from feeds, which in certain fituauons and fealons
ripen here.
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