PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 95 



TRUMPET-FLOWER. TRUMPET-CREEPER. 



(Plate XLIV.) 



Tecoma radicans. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Bignonia, Orange, yellow and Scentless. New Jersey south- July, August, 

 scarlet. ward and westwviL 



Flowers: very showy; axillary; growing in terminal corymbs. Calyx : five- 

 toothed. Corolla: two and a half inches long; trumpet shaped with five lobes, 

 veined on the inside. Stamens : four, in pairs, two shorter than the others. 

 Pistil : one. Leaves: odd-pinnate; opposite; with four or five pairs of ovate 

 pointed, toothed leaflets. Stem: woody, climbing by aerial rootlets. Pod: 

 long, a little flattened. 



To watch the way in which this bold vine climbs by means of 

 the aerial rootlets that spring from the stem, is a good lesson in 

 moral philosophy. It appears to take vigourous delight in its 

 upward course, and in showing us its belief in the survival of 

 the fittest, by crushing out any weaker plant that comes within 

 its reach. We almost take a step backward to view it from a 

 safer distance. 



Its abundant growth and the difficulty in extirpating it makes 

 it a rather troublesome weed in some of the western states. In 

 the east it is cultivated as one of our most beautiful climbers. 



WILD RED-OSIER DOGWOOD. 



Cor mis stolonifera. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Dogwood. White. Scentless. General. June, July. 



Flowers : small ; growing in spreading cymes. Calyx : tiny ; four-toothed. 

 Corolla: of four oblong petals. Stamens: four. Pistil: one. Fruit: nearly 

 white. Leaves: ovate, with rounded bases, whitish beneath; rough. A 

 shrub of stocky growth; conspicuous from its bright red branches. 



PANICLED CORNEL, OR DOGWOOD. 



Cdrnus candidissima. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Dogwood. White. Scentless. Maine to North June, July. 



Carolina and westward. 



Flowers : small ; growing in loose cymes. Calyx, Corolla, Stamens, and 

 Pistil : as in the preceding species. Fruit: white. Leaves : lanceolate, the un- 

 der part white. A shrub about six or eight feet high with smooth branches, 

 the colour of ashes. 



Both of these dogwoods are conspicuous among the shrubbery 



