1GO GOURD FAMILY. 



C. verruc6sa, WARTY, LONG-NECK, and CROOK-NECK SQUASH, VEGE- 

 TAIU.I; MAKKOW, c. Fruit mostlv hard-fleshed at maturity, the surface 

 wartv, ribbed, or sometimes -mouth and oven, from 2 to a few inches in length 

 in the vcrv various forms, in a remarkable one .3 -4 long and little thicker 

 than a man's arm. 



2. SlalL'S and l>r/</kt green 5 - l-lo'^d Icnces pnt^acent with soft hairs : fruit-stalk 

 ~)-rid//(ifl, prominently erdaryed where it joins the fruit, (lie cent ml pit/ft 

 hardly lliready. 



C. moschata, MUSKY, CHIXA, or BARBARY SQUASH, c Cult, for 

 the cdil)le fruit, which perfects only S., and is club-shaped, pear-shaped, or 

 long-cylindrical, with a glaucous-whitish surface. 



3. Stalks and almost kidnry-s/ttt/Kd s/iy/id'y or oliliisely 5-lo!> d lea res rony/u'sh 

 httin/ : flotccr-skilks terete : tin it of the fruit thick, man y-striatebut not rid fed 

 and yroored: inner j>n/p COJKOUS and not thready. 



C. maxima, GREAT or WINTER SQUASH, c. Fruit rounded, depressed, 

 often much Avider than high, or (as in Omo 8.) ovate and pointed, usually 

 banded lengthwise, varying from 6' to 3 in length or breadth, the hard fle.-h 

 commonly yellow or orange. The crowned or TURBAN SQUASHES have the 

 top of the fruit projecting beyond an encircling line or constriction which marks 

 the margin of the adherent calyx-tube. 



3. CITRULLITS, WATERMELON. (Name made from Citrus, Latin 

 for Orange or Citron.) 



C. vulgaris, WATERMELON. Cult, from Asia. Prostrate, with leaves 

 deeply 3 - 5-lohed, and the divisions again lohed or sinuate-pinnatitid, pale or 

 bluish ; the refreshing edible pulp of the fruit, in which the dark seeds are im- 

 bedded, consists of the enlarged and juicy placeman, which are reddish or rarely 

 white. The so-called CITRON of our gardens is a variety with a Una or hard 

 flesh, used for preserving. 



4. CIJCUMIS, MELON and CUCUMBER. (The Latin name.) 



C. Melo, MELON, MUSKMELOX. Leaves round-heart-shaped or kidney- 

 shaped, the lobes if any and sinuses rounded ; fruit with a smooth rind and 

 sweet flesh, the edible part being the inner portion of the pericarp, the thin and 

 watery placentae being discarded with the seeds. The SERPENT MKI.ON, some- 

 times called SERPENT-CUCUMBER, is a strange variety, occasionally- met with, 

 with a long and snake-like fruit. 



C. sativus, CUCUMBKR. Leaves more or less lobed, the lobes acute, the 

 middle one more prominent, often pointed ; fruit rough or muricate when young, 

 smooth when mature, eaten unripe. 



5. MELOTHRIA. (An ancient Greek name for some sort of grape.) 2/ 

 M. pdndula, from Virginia S., is a delicate low climber, with roundish 



or heart-shaped and 5-angled or lob.-d roughish leaves, minute flowers, in sum- 

 mer, and oval green berries. 



3. ECHINOCYSTIS, WILD BALSAM-APPLE. (Name from Greek 



E. lobata. Low grounds, chiefly N. & W., and cult, for arbors: toll- 

 iinbing, Mn:>othi>h, with strongly and ,-harply .VloJicdJeaves^ copious and 



rather pretty white (lowers, produced all summer, and oval fruit ^' long, dry 

 ajidjb^addery after opening ; seeds flat. 



7. SICYOS, STAR-CUCUMBER. (Ancient Greek name of Cucumber.) 

 S. angulatUS. A weed in d;imp or shady ground*, commoner S., climb- 

 ing high, rlainni v-hairv, with rouudi>li heart-shaped and 5 angled or sli^htlv 

 lobed leaves, inconspicuous (lowers, and little bur-like fruits beset with decidii- 

 ous barbed prickles. The- tendrils are very active in their movements, and in a 

 warm day coil by a visible motion after contact with a solid body. (J) 



