CAMPANULACEAE. 883 



deeply 5-6-parted. Stamens 3 in the staminate flowers, the anuiers more or less 

 coherent. Pistillate flowers with a 2-celled ovary; ovules 2 in each cavity; style 

 very short; stigma hemispheric or lobed. Fruit fleshy or dry at maturity, densely 

 spiny, I -2-celled, usually with 2 seeds in each cavity, dehiscent at the summit. 

 Testa of the seed roughened. [Greek, small-vine.] About 25 species, natives of 

 America. Besides the following, about IO others occur in the western U. S. 



i. Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene. WILD BALSAM APPLE. MOCK 

 APPLE. (I. F. f. 3487.) Stem nearly glabrous, angular and grooved, climbing to 

 a height of 4.5-7.5 m., sometimes villous-pubescent at the nodes. Leaves thin, 

 roughish on both sides, deeply cordate, 3-7-lobed to about the middle, the lobes 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, remotely serrulate; staminate flowers 

 very numerous in narrow compound racemes; pistillate flowers solitary, or raiely 

 2 together; fruit ovoid, green, about 5 cm. long, armed with slender spines. Along 

 rivers, and in waste places, Me. to Ont., Mont., Va., Ky. and Tex. July-Sept. 



4. CYCLANTHERA Schrad. 



Climbing, mostly glabrous vines, with usually digitately compound leaves and 

 small white or greenish monoecious flowers. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla 

 rotate, deeply 5-parted. Staminate flowers racemose or panicled, the stamens 

 united into a central column; anther I, annular in our species. Pistillate flowers 

 solitary; ovary obliquely ovoid, beaked, i-3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cavity; 

 style short; stigma large, hemispheric. Fruit spiny, obliquely ovoid, beaked, at 

 length irregularly dehiscent, few-seeded. [Greek, circle- anther.] About 40 

 species, natives of America. 



i. Cyclanthera dissecta (T. & G.) Arn. CUT-LEAVED CYCLANTHERA. 

 (I. F. f. 3488.) Annual; stem grooved and angular, glabrous, branching, climb- 

 ing to a height of 9-12 dm., or straggling. Leaves digitately 3-7 foliolate, the 

 leaflets oval or oblong, acute at each end, 15 cm. long, rough on both sides, den- 

 tate, or somewhat lobed; staminate flowers racemose, borne on a peduncle 1-5 cm. 

 long; pistillate flowers solitary, very short-peclnncled; fruit narrowed at the base, 

 slightly oblique, about 2.5 cm. long, armed with slender spines. Thickets, Kans. 

 to Tex., La. and northern Mex. July-Sept. 



5. SICYOS L. 



Annual climbing vines, with branched tendrils, angled or lobed leaves, and 

 small white or green monoecious flowers. Calyx-tube campanulate or cup-shaped, 

 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate or rotate, 5 parted nearly to the base. Staminate 

 flowers corymbose or racemose, with 3 stamens, the filaments united into a short 

 column, the anthers coherent. Pistillate flowers several together in capitate long- 

 peduncled clusters; ovary oblong or fusiform, i -celled; ovule i, pendulous; style 

 short, slender; stigmas usually 3. Fruit spiny, indehiscent, i-seeded. [Greek, a 

 cucumber or gourd.] About 35 species, of America and Australasia. Besides the 

 following, 2 others occur in the southwestern States. 



i. S icy os angulatus L. ONE-SEEDED BUR-CUCUMBER. STAR CUCUMBER. 

 NIMBLE KATE. (I. F. f. 3489.) Stem angled, more or less viscid-pubescent, 

 climbing to a height of 4.5-7.5 m., or trailing. Leaves nearly orbicular, rough on 

 both sides, rather thin, deeply cordate at the base, 5-angled or 5-lobed, the lobes 

 acute or acuminate, denticulate;' staminate flowers loosely corymbose or racemose, 

 borne on elongated peduncles; fertile flowers capitate, their peduncles shorter; 

 fruits sessile, 3-10 together, yellowish, about 1.3 cm. long, pubescent, armed with 

 slender rough spines. Along river banks and in moist places. Quebec and Ont. to 

 Fla., S. Dak., Kans. and Tex. Nat. in eastern Europe. June- Sept. 



Family 2. CAMPANULACEAE Juss. 



Bell-flower Family. 



Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or even trees), with alternate 

 exstipulate simple leaves, acrid and usually milky juice, and perfect 

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

 5-parted, the lobes equal or slightly unequal, valvate or imbricate in the 

 bud, commonly persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, regular or irregular, 

 inserted at the line where the calyx becomes free from the ovary, its 



