ce, the
leaves are handsome, and the veins remarkable.

Being too tender to bear the open air of this climate, it is kept in the
stove even during summer, in hot weather it must have plenty of air, and
in cold seasons be sparingly watered.

Is propagated by seeds, but more frequently by cuttings, which MILLER
recommends to be put by for two months or ten weeks, previous to their
being committed to the earth.

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APOCYNUM ANDROSAEMIFOLIUM. TUTSAN-LEAV'D, or FLY-CATCHING DOGSBANE.

_Class and Order._

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cor._ campanulata. _Glandulae_ 5 cum staminibus alternae.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

APOCYNUM _androsaemifolium_ caule rectiuseulo herbaceo, foliis
ovatis utrinque glabris, cymis terminalibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab.
ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 258._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 303._

APOCYNUM canadense; foliis androsaemi majoris. _Bocc. sicc. 35. t.
16. f. 3._ _Moris. Hist. 3. p. 609. s. 15. t. 3. f. 16._

In addition to the powerful recommendations of beauty and fragrance, the
Tutsan-leav'd Dogsbane interests us on account of the curious structure
of its flowers, and their singular property of catching flies.

This species is a native of different parts of North-America; Mr. W.
HALE, of Alton, Hants, who resided at Halifax in Nova-Scotia several
years, brought me some seeds of it gathered in that neighbourhood, which
vegetated, and produced flowering 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 root, thereby it increases greatly in light
dry soils, and warm situations, so as even to be troublesome; it will
not thrive in a wet soil; with us it produces seed-vessels but rarely;
is propagated by parting its roots in Autumn or Spring; MILLER
recommends March as the most proper season, or it may be raised from
seeds, which in certain situations and seasons ripen here.

The flowers of this Apocynum have a sweet honey-like fragrance, which
perfumes the air to a considerable distance, and no doubt operates
powerfully in attracting insects; when a plant of this sort is fully
blown, one may always find flies caught in its blossoms, usually by the
trunk, very rarely by the leg