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and yellow berry, known as PassiHora incarnata is found 

 from Virginia to Missouri, and southward. 



189. THE GOURDS. CUCURBITACEAE. 



Herbaceous vines, including the pumpkin, melon, cucumber 

 and squash. Leaves alternate, generally lobed ; tendrils 

 branched. Flowers in our species small and clustered, fol- 

 lowed by a prickly or bristly fruit. 



Leaves with long sharp pointed lobes, fruits solitary, 2 inches 



long Mock apple no. 190 



Leaves merely angled, or short lobed, fruits 3-10 together, about 

 1/2 inch long Star cucumber no. 191 



190. Mock Apple. Micrampelis lobafa. (Echinocystis lob- 

 ata.) An annual, weak, herbaceous vine, climbing over bushes. 

 Leaves heart-shaped at the base, on rough stalks, deeply lobed 

 with sharp-pointed lobes. Flowers numerous, white, followed 

 by an ovoid prickly fruit about 2 inches long. Nova Scotia to 

 Ontario and Montana, south to Va., Ky., and Texas. August. 



191. Star Cucumber. Sicyos angulatus. Annual herbaceous 

 vine with sticky stem. Leaves nearly round, sometimes c 

 inches across, rough, heart-shajied at the base, angled, or 

 shallowly lobed. Flowers white, not so numerous as in the 

 preceding, the clusters long-stalked. Fruits clustered 3-10 to- 

 gether, about 1/2 inch long, hairy and prickly. Quebec to Fla., 

 west to So. Dak., Kan., and Texas. July. Figure 191. 



