PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOII.. 95 
TRUMPET-FLOWER. TRUMPET-CREEPER. 
(Plate XLIV.) 
Técoma radicans, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Bignonia. Orange, yellow and Scentless. New Jersey south- July, August. 
scarlet. ward and westwood. 
Flowers : very showy; axillary; growing in terminal corymbs. Calyx : five- 
toothed. Corol//a: 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 aérial rootlets. Pod: 
long, a little flattened. 
To watch the way in which this bold vine climbs by means of 
the aérial 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, Wealmost take a step backward to view it froma 
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. 
Cornus stolontfera. 
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. rstil: one. Fruit: nearly 
white. eaves: ovate, with rounded bases, whitish beneath; rough. A 
shrub of stocky growth; conspicuous from its bright red branches. 
PANICLED CORNEL, OR DOGWOOD. 
Cornus candidisstma. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Dogwood. White. Scentless. Maine to North Sune, July. 
Carolina and westward. 
Flowers: small; growing in loose cymes. Calyx, Corolla, Stamens, and 
Pistil : as in the preceding species. Fruzt: 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 
