dog's-bane

Apocynum cannabinum, L. A. pubescens, Ell.Sk. Indian hemp; dog's-bane; old Amy-root; grows along fences in wet soils; collected in St. John's; vicinity of Charleston; Newbern.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

These are small flowers, of the dog's-bane kind, very much resembling each other in shape and smell, highly fragrant, but very different from every product of an English garden.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784