THE TRUMPET FLOWER FAMILY. 407 
C. hispidula. Gray. 
An evergreen plant, with a woody stem, creeping on the earth 
or beneath the decayed leaves, within deep, shady woods, and 
sending out numerous, prostrate, filiform branches, rough with 
appressed, ferruginous bristles. The flowers are solitary, on 
short, recurved stems, in the axil of a leaf, with two ovate, con- 
cave, hispid bracts. Calyx of four pointed segments, surmount- 
ing the ovary and forming a part of the succulent berry. Co- 
rolla small, white, bell-shaped, somewhat four-sided. Berry 
white, eatable, juicy, and of an agreeable subacid taste, with a 
pleasant chequer-berry flavor. The whole plant has the aro- 
matic taste and smell of Gaulthéria procimbens. The leaves 
are about one third of an inch long, nearly orbicular, acute at 
the end, rounded or acute at base, reflexed at the margin, smooth 
above, paler and scattered with stiff hairs beneath. 
Flowers in May and June. Mr. Tuckerman tells me that 
this plant is abundant on the sides of the White Mountains, 
where it forms, with its creeping stems, large, thin mats, beneath 
which, when lifted up, the pleasant berries are found in luxu- 
riant profusion. This plant evidently takes its place between 
Orycéccus and Gaulthéria, the former of which it resembles in 
habit, the latter in properties. 
Tre Trumpet Flower Fammy, Bignonidcee, a rather large 
family of trees, climbing shrubs and herbaceous plants, with 
large, trumpet-shaped, showy flowers, contains three genera,— 
two Trumpet Flowers Bigndnia and Tecoma and the Catalpa, 
which are somewhat extensively introduced as ornamental 
plants, but are not found growing naturally in this State, nor 
probably in any part of New England. 
position of a plant. which, ever since its first detection, has been wandering from 
genus to genus, suing in vain for admittance at the gates of four old genera and 
two new ones, and at last obtaining, from his faithful examunation of its case, a 
character, a habitation and a home, in a seventh. 
