CAMPANULA FAMILY 237 
1. C. fetidissima HBK. Missourr Gourp. 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 8.W. 
2. C. Melopepo L. Summer SquasuH. 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. Crooxneck 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.* 
I 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 
8. 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 
eucumber, which blossom through the summer and autumn, are 
common in the northern states and the Middle West.] 
99. CAMPANULACEZE. 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-seeded. : 
