No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 359 



OROBANCHACEAE. BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. 



EPIFAGUS Nutt. Cancer-root. Beech-drops. 



Epifagus virginiana (L.) Bart. 

 Leptamninm virginianum Raf. 

 Beech-drops. 



Occasional. Dry woods, under beech trees. Aug. — Sept. 

 The earHer flowers are cleistogamous. Medicinal. 



CONOPHOLIS Wallr. Squaw-root. Cancer-root. 



Conopholis americana (L. f.) Wallr. 

 Cancer-root. 



Rare. Rich woods: Plainville (J. N. Bishop), Southing- 

 ton (Andrews & Bissell), Guilford (G. H. Bartlett), New 

 Haven (Eaton Herb.). June. 



OROBANCHE L. Broom-rape. 



Orobanche uniflora L. (one-flowered). 

 Aphyllon nniflorum L. Gray. 

 Thalesia uniflora Britton. 

 One-flowered Cancer-root. 



Occasional or frequent. Dry or moist woods and thickets, 

 sometimes in fields or by roadsides. May — June. 



The plant is medicinal. 



BIGNONIACEAE. BIGNONIA FAMILY. 



TECOMA Juss. Trumpet-flower. 



Tecoma radicans (L.) Juss. (rooting). 

 Trumpet Creeper. 



Rare or local. Roadsides and thickets as an escape from 

 cultivation. Aug. — Sept. Adventive from the South. 



Cultivated for ornament. In the South it becomes a per- 

 nicious weed in cultivated ground. 



CATALPA Scop. Indian Bean. Catalpa. 



Catalpa bignonioides Walt, (like Bignonia). 

 Catalpa Catalpa Karst. 

 Catalpa. Candle or Bean Tree. 



Rare. Fields and roadsides as an escape from cultivation : 

 Norwich and New London (Graves), Southington (An- 



