﻿CAMPANULA 
  FAMILY 
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  1. 
  C. 
  fcetidissima 
  HBK. 
  MISSOURI 
  GOURD. 
  Stem 
  stout, 
  rough 
  

   and 
  hairy. 
  Root 
  very 
  large, 
  carrot-shaped. 
  Leaves 
  thick, 
  triangular 
  

   heart-shaped. 
  Flowers 
  3-4 
  in. 
  long. 
  Fruit 
  globose 
  or 
  somewhat 
  

   obovoid, 
  2-3 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter. 
  Dry 
  soil 
  W. 
  and 
  S.AV. 
  

  

  2. 
  C. 
  Melopepo 
  L. 
  SUMMER 
  SQUASH. 
  Stem 
  rough-hairy, 
  angled, 
  

   2-5 
  ft. 
  long. 
  Leaves 
  broadly 
  heart-shaped, 
  angularly 
  3-5-lobed, 
  

   rough. 
  Flowers 
  yellow, 
  short-peduncled. 
  Fruit 
  roundish, 
  longitudi- 
  

   nally 
  compressed, 
  the 
  margin 
  smooth, 
  wavy, 
  or 
  tubercular. 
  Com- 
  

   mon 
  in 
  cultivation.* 
  

  

  3. 
  C. 
  verrucosa 
  L. 
  CROOKNECK 
  SQUASH. 
  Stem 
  rough-hairy, 
  angled 
  

   and 
  striate, 
  5-10 
  ft. 
  long. 
  Leaves 
  cordate, 
  deeply 
  5-lobed, 
  very 
  rough, 
  

   long-petioled. 
  Flowers 
  light 
  yellow, 
  long-peduncled. 
  Fruit 
  clavate, 
  

   the 
  base 
  often 
  slender 
  and 
  curved, 
  smooth 
  or 
  tuberculate, 
  very 
  variable. 
  

   Common 
  in 
  cultivation.* 
  

  

  n. 
  CUCUMIS 
  L. 
  

  

  Annual 
  herbs 
  ; 
  stems 
  trailing, 
  usually 
  shorter 
  and 
  more 
  

   slender 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  genus 
  ; 
  tendrils 
  not 
  forked. 
  

   Leaves 
  varying 
  from 
  entire 
  or 
  nearly 
  so 
  to 
  deeply 
  cut. 
  Sterile 
  

   flowers 
  in 
  clusters, 
  fertile 
  ones 
  solitary 
  in 
  the 
  leaf 
  axils. 
  

   Corolla 
  of 
  5 
  acute 
  petals, 
  which 
  are 
  but 
  little 
  joined 
  at 
  the 
  

   base. 
  Stamens 
  not 
  evidently 
  united. 
  Style 
  short 
  ; 
  stigmas 
  3, 
  

   each 
  2-lobed. 
  Fruit 
  rather 
  long. 
  Seeds 
  not 
  large, 
  lance-oblong, 
  

   not 
  margined. 
  

  

  1. 
  C. 
  sativus 
  L. 
  CUCUMBER. 
  Leaves 
  somewhat 
  lobed, 
  the 
  middle 
  

   lobe 
  largest. 
  Fruit 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  covered 
  when 
  young 
  with 
  rather 
  

   brittle, 
  blackish 
  prickles, 
  which 
  fall 
  off 
  as 
  it 
  ripens. 
  Cultivated 
  from 
  

   S. 
  Asia. 
  [Other 
  varieties 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Cucumis 
  are 
  the 
  muskmelon, 
  

   cantaloupe, 
  and 
  nutmeg 
  melon. 
  Other 
  commonly 
  cultivated 
  genera 
  

   are 
  Citrullus, 
  the 
  watermelon, 
  and 
  Lagenaria, 
  the 
  bottle 
  gourd. 
  Two 
  

   wild 
  genera, 
  Echinocystis, 
  the 
  wild 
  cucumber, 
  and 
  Sicyos, 
  the 
  star 
  

   cucumber, 
  which 
  blossom 
  through 
  the 
  summer 
  and 
  autumn, 
  are 
  

   common 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  states 
  and 
  the 
  Middle 
  West.] 
  

  

  99. 
  CAMPANULACE^. 
  CAMPANULA 
  FAMILY 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  with 
  milky 
  juice. 
  Leaves 
  alternate, 
  without 
  stipules. 
  

   Flowers 
  epigynous, 
  actinoniorphic, 
  not 
  clustered. 
  Calyx 
  5- 
  

   lobed. 
  Corolla 
  regular, 
  bell-shaped, 
  5-lobed. 
  Stamens 
  5, 
  usu- 
  

   ally 
  free 
  from 
  the 
  corolla 
  and 
  not 
  united. 
  Style 
  1, 
  usually 
  

   hairy 
  above 
  ; 
  stigmas 
  2 
  or 
  more. 
  Fruit 
  a 
  capsule, 
  2 
  or 
  more 
  

   celled, 
  many-seeded. 
  

  

  