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the calyx. Stamens 5, triadelphous. Stigmas 3, subsessile, thick, 2- 
lobed. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, See ds white, lance-oblong, compressed, 
acute at lip and on et ma ce 
1. C. Me’no, L. Ste rate ; leaves subcordate, obtuse, somewhat 
angled, the angis fomsided “tertile flowers perfect ; fruit oval or subglo- 
bose, toru 
MELON ate Musk-melon. Cantaloupe. 
Fr. Melon. Germ. Die Melone. Span. Melon almizcleno. 
Hirsute and roughish. ee a. Stem 5-8 or 10 feet long, sparingly branched ; 
tendrils simple. Leaves 3-4 inches ptegn ZI and batho wider than long ; petioles 2- 3 inches 
in length. Flowers axillar ellow. Fruit 4-6 or 8 inches 
in diameter, often longstaialy rig | (loralese), —the flesh, when mature, yellowish, 
icy tha 
dia 
ie ere and of a wget br 
Gar d lots : wire P Nat ie ‘of Asia. Fl. June-July. Fr. August. 
The fruit od this—of which there are several varieties—is a great 
favor with many persons,—and it is often cultivated at the North ; but 
—chegeegi are grown in the warm sandy soil of New Jersey, and 
the Southern Sta 
2. ©. sarr’vus, L. Stem aber — subcordate and angulate- 
lobed, the terminal lobe prominent ; frui ae obscurely and ics 
trigonous, sca when young, ally te oothish. 
Cuurivaren Cucumis. Cucum 
Fr. Le Concombre. Germ. Die ae Span. Pepino. 
Rough and hispid. Root annual. Stem 6-12 or 15 feet long, somewhat branching 
tendrils simaple. 3-5 or 6 inches long, and nearly as wide as long, somewhat 
5-angled and lobed ; petioles 2-4 inches i. Pee der Flowers axillary, on short "peduncles ; os 
" 6-12 inches long 2-3 inches in diameter, rough with bristle- 
yellow 
a tubercles whe ne had paaik be ne and bet yellow when mature. 
Par bcos wb ages aay Native of Tartary and the East. F1. Jone-September. 
sareleg erie 
Ro, Sat aoa ees sativus). 24 A fertile tower 
of the same. A pistil. 94. Tho stamens, sai cayeneopee 
