1GO GOUUL) FAMILY. 



C. verruc6sa, WARTY-, LONO-NKCK, and CROOK-NECK SQUASH, VEGE 

 TAi'.i.i; MARROW. &c. Fruit inu-itly hard-fleshed at inatiirity, the surface 

 wartv, ribbed, or sometime-; Miiootli ,-iinl even, f'nuu '2 to a few inches in length 

 in the very various forms, in a rcniarkal)le one 3 -4 long and little thicker 

 than a man's arm. 



'2. .SW/-.S null i.ri'ilii ///> * a '> - 7-lo'n'd / aws pubescent with soft hairs : fruit-stalk 

 5-ri<.li/i-tl, prominently ntl<ir<j<d where it joins the fruit, the a -ntrai /"<//> 

 hardly thready. 



C. moschata, MI-SKY, CHINA, or BARBARY SQUASH, &c. Cult, for 



the edible fruit, which perfects <>uly S., and is club-shaped, pear-shaped, or 

 long-cylindrical, with a glaucous-whitish surface. 



3. Stalks and almost kidney-shaped sln//it/y or ohtttsely 5-/o6<(/ /earths roughish- 

 lui in/ : jht'i-i r-s'alks terete : that of the fruit thick, many-striatebut nut rid.jnl 

 and groaned: inner /jn/p cu/nmis and not thready. 



C. maxima, GREAT or WINTER SQUASH, &c. Fruit rounded, depressed, 

 often much wider than high, or (as in OHIO S.) ovate and pointed, usually 

 handed lengthwise, varying from <>' to 3 in length or lnvadth, the hard flesh 

 commonly yellow or orange. The crowned or TURUAX Sorvsm:s have the 

 t/>p of the fruit projecting beyond an encircling line or constriction which marks 

 the margin of the adherent calvx-tube. 



3. CITRULLUS, WATERMELON. (Name ma.le from Citrus, Latin 

 for Oranye or Citron.) 



C. vulgaris, WATERMELON. Cult, from Asia. Prostrate, with leaves 

 deeply 3 5-lobed, and the divisions a^-aiu lolied or sinuate-pinnatifid, pale or 



>i!uish ; the refreshing eililile ]iul|i of the fruit, in which the dark seeds are ini- 

 liedded, consists of the enlarged and juicy placenta-, which arc reddish or rarely 

 white. The so-called CITRON of our gardens is a variety with a linn or hard 

 flesh, used for preserving. 



4. CUCUMIS, MELON and CUCUMBER. (The Latin name.) 



C. Melo, MKLON, MUSKMELON. Leaves round heart-shaped or kidnev- 

 shaped, the lohes if any and sinuses round d ; fruit with a smooth rind and 

 sweet flesh, the edihle part being the inner portion of the pericarp, the thin and 

 watery placenta' being discarded witli the seeds. The SI-:UIT.\T MKI.ON, .some- 

 times called SERPENT-CDCDMBKE, is a strange variety, occasionally met with, 

 with a long and snake-like fruit. 



C. satlVUS, CYiTMiiER. Leaves more or less lobed, the lobes acute, the 

 middle one more prominent, often pointed ; fruit rough or muricate when vouug, 

 smooth when mature, eaten unripe. 



5. MELOTHRIA. (An ancient Greek name for some sort of grape.) 2/ 

 M. pdndula, from Vir-inia S., is a delicate low climber, with roundish 



or heart-shaped and 5-au-lcd or lob/d mu-hish leaves, minute (lowers, in sum- 

 mer, and oval green berries. 



6. ECHINOCYSTIS, WILD BALSAM-AITLE. (Xame from Greek 



for Itidi/t/ttii/ and dluddir.) 



E. lobata. Low ground-, ehietly X. W., and cult, for arbors: tall- 

 iliinbing, sinoothi-h, with strongly and sharply 5-lobed leaves, copious and 

 rather pretty while lloucrs, produced all summer, and oval fruit 2' long, dry 

 and bladdery after opening ; seeds flat. 



7. SICYOS, STAR-CUCUMBER. (An. -init (Srcvk name of Cucumber.) 

 S. angulatUS. A weed iii damp or shady grounds, commoner S., climb- 



ing high, clammy-hairy, with roundish heart shaped and 5 angled or slightly 

 lobed leaves, inconspicuous (lowers, and little bur-like fruits liesct with decidu- 

 ous barbed prickles. The tendrils arc very active in their movements, and in a 

 warm day eoil by a visible motion after contact with a solid body. (D 



