_Dogbane Family_
In our species, perennial herbs with opposite, entire leaves and small,
5-parted, campanulate, pink flowers in corymbed cymes, and slender
elongated terete seed pods.
[Sidenote: =Apocynum androsæmifolium= L. _Spreading Dogbane,
Honeybloom._]
Stems 1—3 feet high, branches broadly spreading, mostly smooth. Leaves
ovate or oval, spine-tipped, smooth above, pale and usually more or
less hairy beneath. 2—4 inches long. Flowers pink, open-campanulate, ⅜
of an inch broad, with 5 spreading lobes, numerous, in loose, terminal
and axillary cymes; seed pods round, slender, curved, 4—6 inches long,
narrowed at the apex, usually in pairs; plant with a milky juice.
Frequent on the line of the railway from Field westward through the
valley of the Kicking Horse River.