DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 



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This family also contains many other species, such as the 

 deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna}, the bitter-sweet (80- 

 lanum dulcamara), the Jamestown or jimson weed (D'atura 

 stramonium) and many species of ground cherries (Physalis). 



BIGXONIACE^E (Bignonia Family). Woody plants (trees or 

 climbers) ; flowers large, showy and perfect ; fruit a dry capsule 

 containing many large, flat, winged seeds; leaves simple or com- 



FIG. 221. Cucurbit blossom. 



pounds, usually opposite. Mostly tropical but represented 

 in the north temperate zone by the well-known trumpet flower 

 (Tecoma radicans) and the catalpa (Catalpa speciosa and 

 C. bignonioides) . 



CUCURBITACE^E (Gourd Family). Herbs, mostly trailing or 

 climbing; leaves alternate, palmately veined or lobed; inflo- 

 rescence solitary, sometimes fascicled or racemed ; flowers mostly 

 imperfect, monoecious or dicecious; five-parted gamosepalous, 



