toothed, scarlet at tlie basp, yellow towards the top, 

 greenish at the mouth; stamens and filaments red: 

 ovary 2-oelled, many-seeded. Mex. HBK. Not. Gen. 



p. 209, t. 551. R.H. 1857, p. 151. F.S. 10:994 

 (1854). -The picture first cited shows a 1 sidtd raceme, 

 the second a panicle and tht third a common raceme 

 In this species the cahxtubt is the attrutivL portion 

 while the petals are inconspicuous 1 he tube is not 2 

 lipped, but almost regular 



AA. Petals C, all conspicuous but 2 of IJi «i muih 

 larger than the rest 



procumbens, Cav. Annual herbaceous 1 in high 

 procumbent, sticky-pubescent with characteristic pur 

 plish hairs: Ivs. ovate lanceolate with white hairs 1 J^- 



AAA. Petals 6, all of the same size. 



hyssopiloUa, HBK. Pig. COG. Stem shrubby; branches 



numerous, strieose: Ivs. lanceolate, rather acute, obtuse 



glabrous above, strisr.s.-pilosf aloiit; the 



idrib and veins, as may be kooii witli a haml 1. ns: Hs. 



with their slender pedicels scarc-lv Imul^. rilian tin- Ivs.: 



ments villous : ovary 5-6- 

 seeded. Mex. — C. hyssopi- 

 phxjlla, Hort., Pitcher & 

 Manda, is presumably a typo- 

 graphical error. This is the 

 least attractive of the species 

 here described, and is no 

 longer advertised, but it still 

 lingers in a few conservato- 

 It is easily told from its 

 showier relatives by its much 

 smaller Ivs. (less than K in. 

 long) and much branched and 

 very woody appearance. 



AAAA. Petals normally 2, 

 the other 4 abortive. 

 B. Size of petals very small. 

 cyJtnea, Moc. & Sesse. (C. 

 striguUsa, Hort., not HBK.). 

 Stem herbaceous, erect : 

 branchlets hispid: Ivs. oppo- 

 site, stalked, ovate, cordate, 

 acuminate, villous on both 

 peduncles alternate, racemose : calyx slightly 

 scarlet at the base j ellow at the top : petals 2, 

 patulatL anthers and pt t ils violet-blue. Mex. 

 ■. ittijiltn I Lindl. F.S. 1:15 & 

 I julovi I ut n( ither of these plates 

 IHR whRli IS a different species, 

 lirauches and calyx clammy-his- 

 icute at both ends, clammy, glsk- 

 scabrous below : petals nearly 

 \uled 



Hubbard Squash. 



BR 12 14 (1846) 

 P M 11 '41 IS li 



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