Campanulaceae 385 



2. MICBAMPELIS Raf. 



Mostly climbing herbs, with branched tendrils, lobed 

 divided or angled leaves, and small white or greenish- 

 white monoecious flowers. Calyx-tube campanulate, 

 5-6-toothed. Corolla very deeply 5-6-parted. Stamens 

 3 in the staminate. flowers ; the anthers more or lese 

 coherent. Pistillate flowers with a 2-4-celled ovary ; 

 style very short ; stigma hemispheric or lobed. Fruit 

 fleshy or dry at maturity, densely spiny, 1-2-celled, 

 dehiscent at the summit, 



1. M. macrocarpa Greene. Nearly glabrous; stems much 

 branched, climbing over shrubs, from a very large fusiform root; 

 leaves about 1-1.5 dm. "broad, with a closed sinus, 5-cleft to the 

 middle or below it, the divisions slightly 3-5-lobed, mucronate; 

 fruit ovoid-oblong, 8-12 cm. long, usually densely echinate with 

 stout but rather soft spines, the longest often 5 cm. long, usually 

 12-14-seeded ; seed ovoid, 18 mm. long, light brown, encircled by 

 a dark marginal line. 



Frequent in the hills and in the chaparral belt of all the mountains. 

 February-May. Commonly called chilicothe or wild cucumber. 



Family 94. CAMPANULACEAE. BELLFLOWER 

 FAMILY. 



Herbs with alternate exstipulate entire dentate or 

 rarely lobed leaves, acrid and usually milky juice, and 

 racemose, spicate, paniculate or solitary perfect flowers. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its limb mostly 5-lobed 

 or 5-parted. Corolla regular or irregular, its limb 5-lobed, 

 regular or more or less 2-lipped, or corolla rarely divided 

 into separate petals. Stamens 5, alternate with the 

 corolla-lobes, inserted with the corolla on the calyx 

 where it becomes free from the ovary ; filaments separate 

 or connate ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, separate or united. 

 Ovary 2-5-celled or rarely 6-10-celled, the placentae pro- 

 jecting from the axis or with 2 parietal placentae ; style 



