8 TECOMA RADICANS. TRUMPET-FLOWER. 



" soft gales 



Stole from a peaceful ocean, whose bright waves 

 Rolled gently into music, and they blew 

 Through woven trellises of all-sweet flowers, 

 And sported round long wreaths of festooned vines 

 Hung with the gayest blossoms, " 



and the beautiful tropical scene, as Imagined by the poet Percival, 

 seemed more than realized in these magnificent Trumpet-vines, 

 as their wreaths and festoons hung with myriads of gay blos- 

 soms, swung at the loftiest heights from tree to tree. 



The genus abounds in the tropics, — our species is confined to 

 the southern portion of the United States, reaching the mouth 

 of the Delaware, and going but very little beyond the Missis- 

 sippi river. In the Pennsylvania locality it is in the height of its 

 beauty about the month of August. 



Explanation of the Plate. — i. Flowering branch. 2. The pistil with its bilobed stigma. 

 3. Corolla showing the torn tube. 4. Immature capsule, at the end of the rachis, the 

 scars a a showing where the infertile flowers had been. 



