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49. Bignonia fraxini foliis, coccineo flore minore. 
The Trumpet-flower. 
Thefe plants climb trees, on which they rum a great height, and are frequently feen to covet 
even the dead trunks of very tall trees: the leaves are winged, confifting of many ferrated lobes 
ftanding by couples oppofite to each other, on one rib. In May, June, July, and Auguft, 
they produce bunches of red flowers, fomewhat like the fox-glove; each flower fhoots from 
a reddifh-coloured calix, is monopetalous, fwells in the middle, and opens at the top into five 
lips, with a pointel arifing from the calix through the middle of the flower. In Auguft the 
cods or feed-veffels appear; they are, when full-grown, eight or nine inches long, about the 
fize of a man’s thumb, and fomewhat tapering at both ends; and divide from end to end in 
_ two equal parts, difplaying many flat winged feeds. | 7 
_ Thefe feeds fhould be fent to England in their cods, and will grow very readily when fown 
in pots, with the moderate heat of ‘a hot bed; the fucceeding winter a continuance of protec- 
tion is neceflary, but in the fpring they may be planted out in a warm fituation, where they 
will abide the rigour of our fharpeft winters ; and their ce branches being fupported, they 
will produce plenty of their beautiful bloffoms. : 
There are two kinds of this plant, which are fo like each other that they feem to differ 
only in fize. This here defcribed is the larger one. 
50. Chamedaphne foliis tini, floribus bullatis umbellatis. | 
The Ivy-tree of Virginia. 
* ‘This ever-green fhrub rifes ufually to the height of five or fix fect, and fometimes to twice 
that height: the flems of fome are as big as a man’s wrift, though generally. fmaller, and 
covered with a rough brown bark: the wood is very clofe-grained, heavy, and hard like box; 
the limbs moft commonly are crooked and grow irregular, but are thick cloathed with fuff 
fmooth leaves of a fhining green. The flowers grow in bunches on the tops of the branches, 
to foot-ftalks three inches long 5 ; they are white, ftained with a purple red, and confift of one. 
leaf in form of a cup, divided at the verge into five fe@tions; in the middle is a ftilus and ten 
_ famina, which, when the flower firft opens, appear lying clofe to the fides of the cup at equal 
diftar ces, their apices being lodged in ten little hollow cells, which being prominent on the 
outlide « supex as fo many little tubercles, 
