NAT. ORDER. %^ 

 PersonatcB. 



BIGONIA RADICANS. ASH-LEAVED TRUMPET FLOWER. 



Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Older II. Angiospermia. 



Gen. Chur. Calyx, one-leafed, erect, cup-form, five-cleft perianthium. 

 Corolla, monopetalous, campanulate. Tube, very small, length 

 of the calyx. Throat, long, A'entricose beneath, oblong, cam- 

 panulate. Border, five-parted. Stamens, shorter. Anthers, 

 reflex, double. 

 S/}€. Char. The Plstillum is an oblong germ. Stijlc, filiform. 

 Stigma, capitate. Pcricarpmni, two-celled, two-valved, silique. 

 Seeds, many, imbricate, compressed, membrane winged on both 

 sides. 

 The stems of this plant are rough, and send out many trailing 

 branches, putting out roots at their joints, and thereby fastening them- 

 selves to tiie trees in their natural places of growth, and climbing to 

 a great height ; when it is planted against walls, it strikes into the 

 morter of the joints so strongly as to support the branches, and will 

 rise to the height of forty or fifty feet; the leaves are opposite at 

 every joint, compressed of four paire of leaflets, terminated by an 

 odd one ; they are serrate, and end in a long sharp point ; the Jlow- 

 ers are produced at the ends of the shoots of the same year, in large 

 bunches ; they have long swelling tubes, shaped somewhat like a 

 trumpet, whence the plant has received the appellation of Trumpet 

 Flower ; the corolla is of an orange color, and opens at the beginning 

 of August. It is said to be a native of North Carolina, but may be 

 found in all parts of the New-England States. 



VoL iv.— 81. 



