472 CUCUKBITACBAE (GOURD FAMILY) • 



111. ADOXACEAE Fritsch. Moschatel Family 



Glabrous slender herbs, with scaly or tuberiferous rootsto&Ks;' basal and 

 opposite ternately compound leaves, and small green flowers in terminal capi- 

 tate clusters. Calyx-tulae hemispheric, adnate to the ovary, the, limb, , 2-3- 

 toothed. Corolla rotate, 'regular, .4-6-lobed.". Stamens twice as many'asthe 

 lobes of the corolla, inserted in pairs on its tube; filaments short;' anthers 

 peltate, 1-celled. Ovary 3-5-celled; style 3-5-parted; ovules 1 in each cavity, 

 pendulous. Fruita small drupe with 3-5 nutlets. 



ADOXA L. 



Characters of the family. 



1. Adoza Moschatellina L. Sp. PL 367. 1753. Glabrous and' smooth: rad- 

 ical leaves once to thrice ternately compound; cauline pair of leaves 3-parted 

 , or of 3 obovate and 3-cleft or parted leaflets: flowers siilall, greenish-white or 

 yellowish; ,4 or 5 in a slendjer-pedimculate glomerule:,corolla of the terminal 

 one 4-5-cleft, of the others 5-6-cleft.— -Subalpines; arctic America to Col- 

 orado and eastward in the northern States. 



112. CUCURBITACEAE ES,i,|]Li,s?,., Gourd Family 



Herbs, mostly tendril-bearing and climbing, rather succulent, with alter- 

 nate and palm3,tely veined or lobed leayes and no proper stipules, and mpnoe- 

 cious or dioecious flowers with petals more commonly united into a cup' or 

 tube and; also blended': with the calyx. Sterile flowers wi^htwpi 2fcelled 

 anthers and one 1-celled; the cells usually long and contorted. Fertile flowers 

 with the qalyx-tube adnate to a 1-3-celled ovary. 



Flowers solitary, large, y^low; fruit smooth 1. Cucuibita. 



Flowers racemose, small, greenish-white;, fruit prickly , , , . 2. Echinocystis, 



1. CUCURBITA L. Pxtmpkin, Sqtjabh, etc. ' 



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Mostly prbstrate and rooting at the joints. Leaves cordate; tendrils com- 

 poundi Flowers monoecious. Calyx-tube and corolla campanulate. Sterile 

 flbwers with the Stamens at the base.- Fertile flowei^s with 3 rudimentary 

 stamens. Ovary 'oblong, With 3 placentae. Fruit fleshy, often with a hard 

 rind. Seed ovate or oblong, flattened. i , , , 



1. Cucurbita foetidissima H. B. K. Nov.'Gen. ,2: 123. 1817. Root fleshy, 

 very large, 1-10 dm. thick, yellow inside: leaves cordate-ovate or triangular, 

 undivided or gubsinuate-repand, margin denticula,te: fruit globose, yeljow, 

 .5-8 cm. in diaimeter.; ,C, ^^rennis. — Colorado to .Texas and Mexico and west- 

 ward to, California. , , 



2. ECHINOCYSTIS T. & G. Wild Balsam Apple 



. Tall climbing plants,, neariy smooth, with 3-forked tendrils and thin leaves. 

 Flowers monoecious; fertilejjflp^vers in small clusters or solitary, from the 

 same, axils as the sterile. Petals united at the base into an open spreading 

 corolla. Fruit flashy, at length dry. — {Micrampelis.) , , , 



1. Echinocystis lobata , (Jtichx.) T: & G. Fl. N. A; 1: 642. 1840. 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 



