CUCURBITACEAE 95 



WARTY CUCURBITA. Warted, or Long-necked Squash. 



Hirsute. Stem 10 to 15 feetlong, somewhat branching. Leaves 8 to 10 inches 

 long ; petioles nearly as long. Fruit of varying form and color. 

 Hob. Gardens, Ac. Nat. country unknown. Fl. July. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. Cultivated as the preceding, to which it is nearly allied. 



ORDER XLI. CRASSULACEAE. 



Mostly succulent or fleshy herbs; leaves alternate, or suhverticillate, flat, or terete, 

 chiefly sessile; stipules none; flowers usually cymose, perfectly symmetrical (i. e. 

 the parts all equal in numbers), except that the number of stamens is sometimes 

 doubled; sepals imbricated in the bud (rarely wanting); carpels follicular, opening 

 along the inner suture; embryo in thin albumen. 



141. SE V OIJM, L. 



[Latin, sedeo, to sit ; the plants often sitting on nearly naked rocks.] 

 Sepals and petals mostly 5 : Stamens twice as many. Carpels distinct, 

 each with a little scale at base. Seeds numerous. Leaves thick and 

 fleshy. 



1. S. ternsltuill, MX. Leaves flat, the lower ones spatulate, 



ternately verticillate, the upper ones lance-oblong, scattered; 



cymes 3-spiked, with the 1-sided flowers octandrous and the solitary 



central flower decandrous. 



TERNATE SEDUM. Stone-crop. Purslane-leaved House-leek. 



Perennial. Stems 2 to 4 or 5 inches long, branching from the base, spreading, 

 assurgent. Leaves half an inch to an inch long, a little produced at base. Branches 

 of the cyme 1 to 3 inches in length, spreading or recurved; flowers white; anthers 

 purplish-black. 

 Hob. Shaded rocky banks; Ridley Creek : rare. Fl. May. Fr. June. 



142. PENTHO v RIJMj Gronov. 



[Gr. Pente, five, and oros, a prominence; alluding to the erect carpels.] 

 Sepals 5. Petals mostly wanting. Stamens 10. Carpels united at 

 base, forming a 5-beaked 5-celled capsule ; cells opening transversely. 

 Seeds numerous. Leases thin, scattered. 



1. P. sedoides, L. Leaves lanceolate, serrate ; cyme spreading; 



flowers secund, racemose-spiked. 



SEDUM-LIKE PENTHORUM. Virginian Stone-crop. 



Perennial. Stem 12 to 18 inches high, erect, with a few angular branches above. 

 Leaves 2 to 4 inches long. Racemes 1 to 2 inches long, circinate ; flowers yellow- 

 ish-green. 

 Hob. Swampy places; along rivulets, &c.: frequent. FL July. Fr. Sept. 



ORDER XLII. SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



Herbs, or shrubs; leaves alternate, or opposite; stipules mostly none, or the base of 

 the petioles dilated and stipule-like; sepals 4 or 5, persistent, more or less connect- 

 ed with each other, and often partially adherent to the ovary ; petals as many as 

 the sepals, rarely wanting ; stamens as many, or more commonly twice as many, 

 as the petals, and inserted with them on the calyx ; pistils usually 2, cohering at 

 base, and separate at summit; fruit capsular, mostly 2-beaked, with septicidal de- 

 hiscence, many-seeded ; embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. 



