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NAT. ORDER. 
Personates. 
- BIGONIA RADIOANS. ASH-LEAYED TRUMPET FLOWER, 
Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Order II. Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Caly.r, one-leafed, erect, ciip-form, five-cleft perianthium. 
Corolla, monopetalous, campanulate. Tube, very small, length 
of the calyx. Throat, long, ventricose beneath, oblong, cam- 
panulate. Border, five-parted. Stamens, shorter. Anthers, 
reflex, double. 
Spe. Char. The Pistillum is an oblong germ. Style, filiform. 
Stigma, capitate. Pericarpium., two-celled, two-valved, silique. 
Seeds, many, imbricate, compressed, membrane winged on both 
sides. 
The stems of this plant are rough, and send out many trailing 
branches, putting out roots at their joints, and thereby fastening them- 
selves to the trees in their natural places of growth, and climbing to 
a great height ; when it is planted against walls, it strikes into the 
morter of the joints so strongly as to support the branches, and will 
rise to the height of forty or fifty feet; the leaves are opposite at 
every joint, compressed of four pairs of leaflets, terminated by an 
odd one ; they are serrate, and end in a long sharp point ; the flow- 
ers are produced at the ends of the shoots of the same year, in large 
bunches ; they have long swelling tubes, shaped somewhat like a 
trumpet, whence the plant has received the appellation of Trumpet 
Flower ; the corolla is of an orange color, and opens at the beginning 
of August. It is said to be a native of North Carolina, but may be 
found in all parts of the New-England States. 
VoL iv.-81. 
