DESCRIPTION OP MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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This species is found around Nashville, and likely through- 
out Middle Tennessee. C. spesiosa, Warder, takes its place 
in East Tennessee. The bark is on some of the drug lists. 
Tecoma radicans, Juss. Trumpet-Creeper. Woody climber 
attaching itself by aerial rootlets. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 
9-11, ovate, pointed, toothed ; flowers corymbed ; calyx bell- 
shaped, 5-toothed ; corolla funnel-form, 5-lobed, a little ir- 
regular, orange and scarlet, 2J-3' long. Stamens 4. Cap- 
sule 2-celled, with the partition at right angles to the con- 
vex valves; pod 4-5' long. Seeds transversely winged. 
Moist soil, on river banks, sometimes horizontally spread 
over acres of ground. FI. May-August. The bark. 
VERBENACEiE. (Vervain Family.) 
Verbena officinalis, L. European Vervain. Annual, gla- 
brous, loosely branched, 1-3° high ; leaves pinnatifid or 3- 
cleft, oblong-lanceolate, sessile, smooth above, the lobes cut 
and toothed; spikes panicled, filiform; flowers purplish, 
very small. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, one of the teeth often 
shorter than the others. Corolla tubular, often curved,, 
salver-form. Stamens included, the upper pair occasionally 
without anthers. Fruit splitting into 4 seedlike nutlets. 
Nearly everywhere about houses and settlements in sandy 
soil. The herb in flower. July. 
Verbena urticsefolia, L. White Vervain. Flower-spike and 
flowers very much like the former, but more robust and 
taller, 3-5° high ; leaves oval or oblong-ovate, acute, coarse- 
ly serrate, petioled ; spikes at length much elongated, loosely 
panicled ; flowers very small, white. A homely weed, every- 
where along roadsides or open grounds. Collect the root. 
Verbena angustifolia, Michx. Narrow- leaved Vervain. An 
erect, slender, pale-green perennial, 12-18' high, often sim- 
ple; leaves narrowly lanceolate, tapering to the base, sessile, 
roughish, slightly toothed, spikes few or single, the small 
purple flowers in a dense spike. The fruits crowded, over- 
lapping each other. A common weed along roadsides in the 
