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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Cucurbita continued. 



maturity. 1. ovate, cordate, three to flve-lobed, somewhat coch- 

 leate. Stems assurgent, dwarf. See Fig. 564. 



C. m. vlridis (green). Large Green Gourd, fr. green, large, 

 hollow at maturity. Stems very long, climbing. 



C. moschata (musky). Musk Melon, fl., calyx hemispherically 

 campanulate, short, having the throat much dilated. May. 

 fr. depressed. I. cordate, obtuse, somewhat flve-lobed, denticu- 

 lated. Tendrils usually transformed into very imperfect leaves. 

 Native country unknown. 1597. See Figs. 565 and 566. 



C. Pepo. Pumpkin, jl, calyx ending in a neck beneath the 

 limb. June to August, fr. roundish or oblong, smooth. I. cor- 

 date, obtuse, somewhat flve-lobed, denticulated. Levant, 1570. 

 The Custard Gourd (Fig. 567) is one of the best-known of the very 

 numerous forms of this species, of which there are also roundish 

 and oblong-fruited ones. Fig. 568 represents (1) leaf and (2) male 

 and (3) female flowers of one of the long-fruited varieties. 



C. P. aurantia (orange). Orange Gourd. Jl. yellow. Summer. 

 fr. having the appearance and colour of an orange, globose, 

 smooth. (. sub-cordate, three-lobed, cuspidate, sharply denticu- 



lated. Native country unknown. 

 There are two or more varieties. 



1802. Plant very scabrous. 



C. P. ovifera (egg-bearing). Egg-bearing Gourd, or Vegetable 

 Marrow. /., calyx obovate, ending in a short neck, and cut 

 round after flowering to the neck. July to September, fr. greenish 

 or yellowish, figure of an egg, obovate or ovate, smooth. I. cor- 

 date, angular, flve-lobed, denticulated, pubescent. Native country 

 unknown. There are grey-fruited, pear-shape-fruited, and sub- 

 globose-fruited forms of this species. See also Vegetable 



C. P. verrucosa (warted). Warted Gourd, fr. roundish-elliptic, 

 warted. I. cordate, deeply flve-lobed, denticulated ; middle 

 lobe narrow at the base. 1658. In America, this is commonly 

 grown for culinary purposes, but in England chiefly as a 

 curiosity. 



CULCASIA (from Kulkas, the Arabic name for 

 Colocasia antiquorum, a plant of the same family). STN. 

 Denhamia. ORB. Aracece. Stove evergreen climbers, 

 allied to Fhiloclendron (which see for culture, &c.). 

 C. scandens (climbing), fl., spathe whitish-brown ; sheaths 



petiolar, long, equal to the scape. June. I. ovate-lanceolate, 



acuminate. Stem twining, suffrutescent. West Africa, 1822. 



CULM. The straw or stem of grasses. 



CULTRATE, CULTRIFORM. Shaped like a 

 pruning-knife. 



CULVER'S PHYSIC. See Veronica virginica. 



CUMINGIA CAMFANULATA. See Conanthera 

 campanulata. 



CUNEATE, CUNEIFORM. Wedge-shaped; the 

 broadest end uppermost, tapering to the base. 



CUNILA (an ancient Latin name, of unknown origin). 

 ORD. Labiatce. A genus containing about twelve species 

 of herbs or sub-shrubs, natives, for the most part, of North 

 America. Flowers white or purplish, small ; corolla two- 

 lipped, with the upper lip erect, flattish, mostly notched, 

 and the lower somewhat equally three-cleft ; calyx ovate- 

 tubular, equally five-toothed, and hairy in the throat. 

 Leaves large, dentate. C. mariana is perhaps the only 

 species yet introduced to cultivation. It is a hardy 

 perennial, thriving in a loam and peat soil. Increased by 

 root division. 



C. mariana (Maryland). Common Dittany, fl. purplish ; cymes 

 puduncled; calyx striated. July to September. I. smooth. 



Fio. 569. CUNONIA CAPKXSIS. 



C. perennls (perennial). /. about the size of C. Pepo ; lobes of 

 calyx subulate, fr. nearly sessile, orbicular, smooth, usually 

 four-celled. I. triangularly cordate, with undulated margins. 

 Tendrils trichotomous. Native place doubtful. SYN. Cucumis 

 perennis. 



CUCURBIT ACEJE. A large order of succulent 

 climbing plants, with solitary lateral tendrils. Flowers 

 solitary, panicled, or in fascicles, monoecious or dioecious; 

 corolla of five (rarely three or six) petals, sometimes fringed, 

 with strongly-marked reticulated veins. Fruit fleshy, more 

 or less succulent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, palmate or 

 pedate, often cordate, succulent, rough. There are about 

 seventy genera (including Bryonia, Cucumis, Cucurbita, 

 and Trichosanthes) and about 470, species. 



ovate, serrate, rounded or heart-shaped at the base, nearly sessile, 



ranched. 

 uthward. 



, , 



dotted, lin. long. Stems tufted, corymbosely much-branched. 

 h. 1ft. South New York to Ohio, Illinois, and 



(S. B. F. G. 243.) 

 CUNNINGHAMIA (named after J. and A. Cunning- 

 ham, two celebrated botanical collectors, the former being 

 the discoverer of this Conifer). Broad-leaved China Fir. 

 ORD. Coniferce. An evergreen tree, not hardy except in 

 very favoured spots. It is too large to be allowed space 

 in the greenhouse, and, when grown in the open, it is 

 almost invariably disfigured by the violence of winds and 

 frost. With these impediments of primary importance, 

 the tree will never become largely grown ; it has, however, 

 been frequently seen doing well. Cunninghamia requires 



