us ee Lay") 
Bicnonia Rapicans, ASH-LEAVED 
- ‘TRUMPET-FLOWER. 
JHE SSS HHHHBHHoH 
_ Clafs and Grace, : 
DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Canes Charaéer. 
Cal, 5-fidus, cparhitdanik: Cor. fauce campanulata, fda; fabs 
tus ventricofa, die 2-locularis. Sem. ee 
= "Mere. pe ne nah, "ee U. 26 2. B. 348. a 
PSEUDO. GELSEMINUM filiq uofum. Riv. ee 101. 
PSEUDO-APOCYNUM eaeaceuer americanum tubulofo 
flore pheeniceo, fraxini folio. Mon/. Hift. 3. 
ef Rae As lhe % 3: dude, « 
‘Mendiedivabes 
: ie is difficult to GS icecitin precifely when this ‘beautiful 
: climber was introduced to this country from North-America, 
its native place of growth ; ; it was evidently cultivated here by 
Parxinson in 1640, as in his 7h, Botan. he delcribes it 
‘Minutely, and adds, ae this never bore flower with mee, nor 
* any other that hath it in our country that I could heare oa” 
we may from hence infer, that at this period it could 1 not have 
been Jong or generally cultivated, as the plant blows freely 
enough at a certain age + MiLier fays, in feven or eight 
years from feed. 
The authors who fisligdlele ribet this plant, called it by va- 
rious names ; Parkinson, in criticifing on fome of thele, is 
betrayed into an illiberality altogether inconfiftent with his 
ufual candour and gravity: “neither yet,” fays he, “doe I 
_“ entitle it ee Metninnts ee Indicum, as that good 
_® French goofe doth, whofe horned name is prefixed to his 
~ pores of g judgement, no doubt to make it bear an 
, see kash fo little refemblance thereto ;” alluding 
to Hi Bepetioent who calls it by that name, and who moft pro- 
_ ‘Bab EPO Fa Pr betiracees, pee ees a 
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