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TRUMPET FLOWER. — BIGNONI A. 



Natural order, Personatce. Bignonice, Juss. 

 A genus of the Didynamia Angiospermia 

 class. 



** Fleurs charmantes ! par vous la nature est plus belle ; 

 Dans ses brillans tableaux Tart vous prend pour modele 

 Simple tribut du cceur, vos dons sont chaque jour 

 Offerts par Tamitie, hasardes par Tamour." 



Delille. 



This beautiful family of shrubs and climb- 

 ing plants, which the discovery of a new 

 world exhibited to us without a name, were 

 by Tournefort called Bignonia, in compli- 

 ment to Abbe Bignon, the librarian to Louis 

 the Fourteenth. The English name of Trum- 

 pet flower has been given to this species of 

 plants, because the corolla of the flower is of 

 a tubular shape, somewhat resembling a 

 trumpet. 



The ash-leaved trumpet flower, Bignonia 

 radicans, was brought from North America 



about the year 1640 ; and it is found to be 



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