THE TRUMPET-CREEPER IWMH.V. ^., 



THE TRUMPET=CREEPER FAMILY. 



Big}ioniacc(C, 



In our spedcs 7voody vines and a tree ivith opposite, simple or two to 

 three foliate leaves^ the terminal leajlet ?nost/y endin;^ in a tendril; and 

 whieh bear large flowers in cymes or panicles^ their corollas gamopctalous, 

 with much expanded tubes, 



CR0S5=VINE. TENDRILLED TRUMPET-F LOWER. 



Bignbnia crucigcra . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Trumpet-creeper. Orange and yello'M. Scentless. Florida to \i,s^inia Apr, I June. 



and wcst-<oai d. 



Flowers: showy; growing on pedicels in cymes, dilyx : mcmhranous; cu|v 

 shaped, with five slight teeth. Corolla : campanulatc, the tube much inflated, the 

 limb showing five rounded lobes. Fertile stamens : four, two of which arc longer 

 than the others. Aiit/iers: smooth. Leaves: with petioles; twice foliolate and 

 terminated by a branching tendril; the leaflets ovate, or oblong, long pointed at 

 the apex and cordate at the base. A woody vine, climbing sometimes fifty and 

 sixty feet high. 



Once I saw this beautiful vine when green and tender, as it had wound 

 and rewound itself about the stem of a great tree until hardly a vestige of 

 the grey frame-work could be seen. On the landscape, therefore, the oak 

 appeared simply a towering mass of green and gave by the sight of its 

 boughs none of the customary assurance that it would not fall over, even 

 without warning. The innumerable, bright flowers gleamed like miniature 

 lanterns through the whole. A startling sight it was, quite ^vo^thy of ihc 

 hazy air and sunshine which brought it forth. The plant is called cross- 

 vine from the cross formed by transverse sections of the stem and is in liic 

 United States the only known species. 



Campsis or Teconia radicans, trumpet-flower, vine, or creeper, is over the 

 country one of the best known vines, for considerably further northward than 

 its natural range it has become familiar through cultivation. In the moist 

 woods of the south it is found climbing over trees, fences and many old 

 stumps, about which it forms graceful festoons. When it meets no support 

 it lies prostrate on the ground, for it has no tendrils with which to climb as the 

 cross-vine. Its leaves are pinnate, the leaflets often pubescent and number- 

 ing from seven to eleven. Through May and June or as late as ScptcmlK-r, 

 and often near the wistaria, its long, funnel-shaped corollas of bright scarlet 



