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COMMON TRUMPET FLOWER. 
TECOMA radicans, foliis ypinnatis ; foliolis avalibus dentatis acumi- 
natis; corymbo terminali ; tubo corolla calyce triplo longiore , caule 
geniculis radicatis . 
Tecoma radicans. Jussieu, Genera Plant, p. 155. 
Bignonia radicans. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 317. Willd. Sp. pi. vol. 3, 
p. 301. Walter, p. 169. Mich. Flor Bor. Amer. vol. 2, p. 25. 
Pursh. Flor. 2, p. 420. Elliott, Sk. 2, p. 108. Curt. Magaz. t. 
485. Nouv. Duhamel, vol. 2, p. 9, tab. 3. Miller, icon. t. 65. 
Wangenh. Amer. p. 68, tab. 26, f. 53. 
Bignonia fraxini foliis , coccineo fore minore. Catesby’s Carolina, vol. 
1, p. 65, tab. 65. 
Bignonia americana, fraxini folio, fore amflo jphceniceo. Tournefort, 
p. 164. 
Gelseminum hederaceum Indicum . Cornut. Canad. p. 102, tab. 103. 
Pseudo- Ajpocynum hederaceum americanum , tubuloso fore phoeniceo, 
fraxini folio . Morris, Hist. 3, p. 612, f. 15, tab. 3, f. 1. 
Gelseminum clematitis , fyc. Barrel, Ic. 59. 
This beautiful climber is indigenous to all the states 
south of New York, and westward to the borders of the 
Mississippi. By means of the radicant fibres of the stem 
it clings to trees and walls, ascending to the height of 30 
to 50 or 60 feet. In favourable situations the main stem 
thickens and takes an independent stand, so as sometimes 
to produce a woody trunk 20 feet high and 3 feet in cir- 
cumference, with a deeply furrowed grey bark. About 
mid-summer it sends out from its elevated summit a bright 
green mass of long depending twigs, producing from their 
extremities, for a long succession, clusters of large, brilliant 
red flowers, something in the form of trumpets, to which 
are continually attracted flocks of young Humming-birds 
in quest of the honeyed repast they so long afford. As a 
hardy ornamental climbing tree, few plants deserve better 
