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1. C. fcetidissima HBK. MISSOURI GOURD. Stem stout, rough 

 and hairy. Root very large, carrot-shaped. Leaves thick, triangular 

 heart-shaped. Flowers 3-4 in. long. Fruit globose or somewhat 

 obovoid, 2-3 in. in diameter. Dry soil W. and S.W. 



2. C. Melopepo L. SUMMER SQUASH. Stem rough-hairy, angled, 

 2-5 ft. long. Leaves broadly heart-shaped, angularly 3-5-lobed, 

 rough. Flowers yellow, short-peduncled. Fruit roundish, longitudi- 

 nally compressed, the margin smooth, wavy, or tubercular. Com- 

 mon in cultivation.* 



3. C. verrucosa L. CROOKNECK SQUASH. Stem rough -hairy, angled 

 and striate, 5-10 ft. long. Leaves cordate, deeply 5-lobed, very rough, 

 long-petioled. Flowers light yellow, long-peduncled. Fruit clavate, 

 the base often slender and curved, smooth or tuberculate, very variable. 

 Common in cultivation.* 



H. CUCUMIS L. 



Annual herbs ; stems trailing, usually shorter and more 

 slender than in the preceding genus ; tendrils not forked. 

 Leaves varying from entire or nearly so to deeply cut. Sterile 

 flowers in clusters, fertile ones solitary in the leaf axils. 

 Corolla of 5 acute petals, which are but little joined at the 

 base. Stamens not evidently united. Style short ; stigmas 3, 

 each 2-lobed. Fruit rather long. Seeds not large, lance-oblong, 

 not margined. 



1. C. sativus L. CUCUMBER. ' Leaves somewhat lobed, the middle 

 lobe largest. Fruit more or less covered when young with rather 

 brittle, blackish prickles, which fall off as it ripens. Cultivated from 

 S. Asia. [Other varieties of the genus Cucumis are the muskmelon, 

 cantaloupe, and nutmeg melon. Other commonly cultivated genera 

 are Citrullus, the watermelon, and Lagenaria, the bottle gourd. Two 

 wild genera, Echinocystis, the wild cucumber, and Sicyos, the star 

 cucumber, which blossom through the summer and autumn, are 

 common in the northern states and the Middle West.] 



99. CAMPANULACEJE. CAMPANULA FAMILY 



Herbs, with milky juice. Leaves alternate, without stipules. 

 Flowers epigynous, actinomorphic, not clustered. Calyx 5- 

 lobed. Corolla regular, bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, usu- 

 ally free from the corolla and not united. Style 1, usually 

 hairy above ; stigmas 2 or more. Fruit a capsule, 2 or more 

 celled, many-eeeded. 



