822 CUCURBiTACEAE 



1. CUCURBITA (Tourn.) L. Gourd, Pumpkin, Squash. 



Annual or perennial, rough-pubescent trailing vines. Leaves petioled, 

 lobed or_ entire, often cordate. Tendrils more or less branched. Flowers 

 large, solitary in the axils of the leaves, monoecious. Hypanthium in the stam- 

 inate flowers campanulate, in the pistillate ones urn-shaped. Sepals 5. Corolla 

 yellow, campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes recurved at the ends. Stamens 3, in 

 the staminate flowers with distinct filaments and Unear, coherent, contorted 

 anther, in the pistillate flowers reduced to staminodia. Pistil in the former 

 wanting, in the latter with a single ovary and 3-5 stigmas, which are 2-branched 

 or at least 2-lobed. Pepo 1-celled, with 3-5 placentae, many-seeded, usually 

 large, fleshy, with a tough rind. Seeds flattened. 



1. C. foetidissima H.B.K, Perennial, with a thick, long taproot; stem 

 trailing, 1-8 m. long; leaves with stout petioles; blades ovate-triangular or ovate, 

 thick, canescent-scabrous, truncate or cordate at the base, 1-4 dm. long^ often 

 sinuately-lobed, denticulate; hypanthium of the staminate flowers hemispheric, 

 that of the pistillate flowers ellipsoid; corolla 6-15 cm. long, campanulate, 

 greenish orange; fruit globose, 5-10 cm. in diameter, smooth, bitter. C. perennis 

 A. Gray. Dry plains and valleys: Tex.— Neb.— Colo.— Calif.— Mex. Plain 

 So7i. My-S. 



2, MICRAMPELIS Raf. Balsam Apple, Mock Apple. 



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Annual or perennial herbaceous climbing vines. Leaves petioled, mem- 

 branous, 5-7-lobed. Tendrils simple or compound. Flowers monoecious, 

 small, the staminate ones racemose or paniculate, the pistillate ones solitary or 

 clustered m the axils of the leaves. Hypanthium of the staminate ones broadly 

 campanulate, that of the pistiUate ones urn-shaped. Sepals 5 or 6. Corolla 

 white or greenish, rotate, 5- or 6-lobed. Stamens in the former 2 or 3 with 

 united niaments and horizontal anthers, in the latter reduced to more or less prom- 

 inent stammodia. Pistil in the former wanting, in the latter with an inferior 

 ovary; stigmas 2- or 3-parted, or -lobed. Fruit covered with soft spines, becom- 

 ing papery, spongy and fibrous within, 2- or 3-ceUed. Seeds few, 1-4 in each 

 cavity, smooth, flattened, erect. [EcMnocystis T & G ] 



V-^' A*'^*^.^^^^^'^-) Greene. Annual; stem angul 



4—8 m. hisfb" lpnf-hl<iflon +V>ir. o^oK-^iir, ^^ u„+i, „: 



triangul; 



impotmd 



4-5 



suuiary or two together; truit globose-ovoid, 4-5 cm. long, 3-4 cm. thick. Echv. 

 cyshs lobata T & G. Alluvial soil among bushes: Me.— Va.-Tex.-Colo. 

 Ida. — Sask. Jl-S. 



Family 130. CAMPANULACEAE. Bellflower Family. 



Annual or perennial caulescent herbs (all ours) or rarely shrubs. Leaves 

 without stipules, alternate, simple. Flowers perfect, racemose or spicate or 

 solitary, terminal or axillary, regular. Hypanthium well developed, enclos- 

 ing the ovary. Sepals 5, partially united, persistent. Corolla of 5 united 

 cornfe • "^P^P^^^l^te, tubular, or rotate. Stamens 5, inserted with the 

 coroUa. filaments distmct; anthers introrse. Gvnoecium of 2-5 united 



with 9 'Tf^' "'"''^ ''' ''''.'''^y '^f^^io'-' 2-o-celled; styles united; stigmas 

 1 cidniiv nr k' """ '^H^ capitate. Fruit a 2-5-celled capsule, opening locu- 

 eSyo straf ht''^' numerous, angled or flattened; endosperm fleshy; 



Capsule opening by 2-5 lateral pores. 



coroUa campanulate or funnelform; flowers all weU developed: capsule turbinate. 



''"'"^'hi^"^= ril^;j «r iTh*^^^^^ = -P«^e "-ear. I", f^^^^- ,, 



3ramo(L "^i"eKi»iarly bursting between the ribs, obp jTamidal ; earUer flowers 



. 3. Heterocodon- 



cleistogamous 



