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4, SUCYOS, L. One-sEepepD Srar-cucUMBER. 
[The ancient Greek name for the Cucumber-.] 
Petals 5, united below into a bell- 
led by a single seed, beset with . 
barbed prickles. baer ait 
resembling the common Cucumber 
vine: fruzt in saptats clusters. 
L §. angula’ I. Leaves cor- 
date at base, tagulats 94 chek: fee uit 
prickly an villous in small, ‘dense, 
usters. 
ANGULATE Sicyos. One-seeded star- 
cucumber. 
Ue 
& 
beni oa ves 3-5 or 6 inches long, é a 
om as wide oe I long ; petioles2-3 inches in 
greenish-white, clustered 
a axillary common 1-5 i 
Sor the staminate ones corymbose capitate 
ith the peduncle rad meg the 2 pe ones in 
dense capitate clusters. Fruit compressed, 
ovate in — ease heads, which are 
about an inch and armed with 
sinndie os why — 
River banks. July— ise 
Obs. This cucumber-like Vine has 
Short, pes ich corn- 
fields of Kentucky, “springing up 
aft op ‘is lai - 
ndi another as to make i 
to pass through the field.” The Balsam Apple Deon Baisam- ‘ 
ma, L.), it of which, made into a tin , Ww ly 
used as an application to wounds, belongs to this section and is some- 
times cultivated in gardens. 
** Petals united with each other and with the calyz. oe 
