apocуnacese

pl. [APOCYNUM.] An order of plants, the English Dog-banes. Lindley places them under his Gent i anal alliance, and the Asclepiad aceæ, or Asclepiads, under his Solanal one, thus separating two orders which in nature are closely akin. Both have monopetalous corollas, with five stamens, the fruit in follicles, and the juice milky; but they differ in the details of the sexual apparatus. In 1846, Lindley estimated the known species of Apocynaceæ at 566, since increased to about 600. Of 100 known genera only one, Vinca, occurs in Britain; the rest inhabit warmer countries than ours. a-põç-ỹ-năm, s . [In Fr. apocin ; Sp. & Ital. apocino ; Gr. ἀπόκυνον (apokunon), a plant, Cynanthus erect us: ἀπό ( apo ) = from, and κύων ( kuōn ) = dog. Literally, from dog, or dog away ; meaning, from which dogs must be kept away, since it is poisonous to them.] Dog's-bane. A genus of plants, the typical one 2 APOCYNUM ANDRO SEMI FOLIUM. 1. Flower and leaves. 2. Flower (twice its natural size); showing how the fly is held by its feeler to the stamens of the flower. of the family Apocynaceæ. The species are not very beautiful. The North American Indians use the fibres of the bark of A. cannabinum and hyp eric i folium as a substitute for those of hemp in manufacturing cordage, linen cloth, . A. androsæmifolium is the Fly-trap of North America. [FLY-TRAP.]