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climbs by means of 3-forked tendrils. It is hairy, not pretty, 

 sometimes a weed in shaded yards. 



Dr. Coulter, speaking of a section in Indiana, says, " The single- 

 seeded cucumber {Sicyos angidatiis) mats all bushes and vegeta- 

 tion within 10 feet of its roots into a thicket, or climbs up a 

 neighboring tree to the distance of 63 feet. 



27. "Wild Balsam-apple 



Echinocystis lobata ("hedgehog" and "bladder," from the 

 prickly, swollen fruit). — Fami/y, Gourd. Color, greenish white. 

 Leaves, deeply 5-lobed, thin. Time, July to October. 



Staminate and pistillate fiowers, separate, from the same 

 leaf-axils, the former in compound racemes (often i foot long), 

 the latter in clusters or single. The flower is of 6 petals 

 united at the base, with open, spreading lobes. The fieshy, 

 oval fruit, 2 inches long, is covered with weak prickles. 



A smooth-stemmed, tall climber, with 3-forked tendrils, found 

 beside rivers from west New England to Pennsylvania. Often 

 cultivated as a veranda climber. 



28. Hairy Honeysuckle 



Lonicera hirsuia. — Family, Honeysuckle. Color, pale yel- 

 low outside, orange within the tube. Leaves, dull green, large, 

 broadly lance-shaped or oval, rounded at base, hairy along the 

 margins and mid-ribs, the upper pair completely united, the 

 others on short, winged petioles. Time, June and July. 



Ca/)'.r-tube with 5 small teeth. Corolla, clammy from minute 

 glands on the outside ; a tube more than h inch long, with the 

 lower lip narrow, and covering the other in bud; the upper 

 divided into 4 roundish lobes. Stamens, 5, protruding. Stig- 

 ma, round, green, terminating a long style. Berries, bright 

 orange, with the calyx teeth left upon them. 



Flowers, sessile, in whorls of about 6, from the upper leaf- 

 axils forming an interrupted, leafy spike. 



