FIG. I. 
372 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER BIGNONIACEJ:. 
radicans major, Loud. Arboret. p. 1260 ? Catesby, Carol, i. p. et t. 65. 
Geogr. Distr. St. Louis (Drummond ! Seemann !). 
Differs specifically from C. radicans, as was long ago suspected by 
Curtis (Bot. Mag. sub t. 488), by its more delicate and slender habit, 
green pedicels, tube of corolla twice the length of the calyx, more 
yellow flowers, and triangular and longer wings of seeds (Fig. 1). 
Curtis says, fl The Bignonia radicans minor has by many been con- 
sidered as a variety of the plant here 
figured [t. e. Campsis radicans, Seem.], 
but it differs so essentially in many 
particulars that it seems to be entitled 
_ to be regarded as a species ; there is 
Fie 2.. ^5|| I 7 all old plant of it and the 'major 9 
w.g ~. growing near together in Chelsea Gar- 
Seeds of Campsis Curtisii and J^ j n w hich we have observed that 
radicans. ^ ( ^.^ ^ ft much sma H er plant, 
more disposed to throw out roots from its stems, infinitely less inclined 
to flower, varying greatly in the form of its leaves, and in the size and 
colour of its blossoms ; and upon the whole much less ornamental and 
desirable." On inquiry I learn from Mr. Thomas Moore, the present 
Curator of the Chelsea Garden, that the plant here referred to by Curtis 
is not now in existence ; and I may add that, although the species seems 
to have been rather common in our gardens in former times, I have not 
been able to see a living garden specimen, though I made my wish known 
through the press, and wrote to many of my botanical friends about it. 
Catesby, who, in his ■ History of Carolina,' gives a plate of the plant, 
says, "The humming-birds delight to feed on these flowers, and, 
trusting themselves to go into the flowers, are sometimes caught. 
C. Curtisii seems to have a more southern range than C. radicans; 1 
remember gathering it close to St. Louis, Missouri, but on the eastern 
side of the Mississippi. 
2. C. radicans, Seem. mss. (Fig. 2); Bureau, Monogr. Big. Atlas, 
p. 16. 1. 14 ; foliis 4-7-jugis cum impari, foliolis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis 
acuminatis, sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis, dentatis serratis v. incisis, 
subtus glabris v. hirsuto-pubescentibus ; paniculis terminalibus v. axilla- 
ribus, pedunculis (purpureis) 1-3-floris, ultimo 1-floro ; calyce tey 
glabra ; tubo corollae calyce vix superante (?) ; antheris ovato-oblongis 
obtusis; capsnla lsevi glabra tercti longe acuminata, basi attcnuata 
