CUCURBITACEAE 151 
2. CUCURBITACEAE. 
Prostrate vines with large yellow flowers, corolla 6-10 cm. long, fruit 
smooth. 1. Cucurbita. 
Climbing vines with small white or greenish flowers, fruit prickly. 
Pistillate flowers solitary or 2 together, fruit several-seeded, de- 
hiscent. 2. Micrampelis. 
Pistillate flowers clustered, 3-10 together, fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent. 
3. Sicyos. 
1. Cucurbita. 882. 
1. Cucurbita foetidissima H. B. K. Fetid or Missouri Gourd. 
On dry prairies mostly in the western part of the state. Franklin; 
Indianola; Lincoln; Peru; Wilsonville. 
2. Micrampelis. 882. 
1. Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene. 
Common in TIC Soil along streams in the eastern part of the state. 
Ft. Robinson; Lincoln; Nebraska City; Spencer; Wahoo. 
. 9% Sicyos. 883. 
1. Sicyos angulatus L. One--seeded Bur-cucumber. 
In moist soil, mostly along streams, in the eastern part of the state. 
Lincoln; Talmage. 
CELASTRALES. 
Petals 4 or 5, (wanting in Rhamnus alnifolia). 
Leaves alternate or if opposite simple, fruit various but not a 
bladdery capsule. 
Stamens opposite the petals. 
Our species shrubs with alternate leaves. 1. Rhamnaceae. 
Vines with tendrils. 2. Vitaceae. 
Stamens alternate with the petals, shrubs with alternate leaves 
or vines without tendrils. 3. Celastraceae. 
Leaves opposite trifoliate, fruit a bladdery capsule. 
4. Staphyleaceae- 
Petals none. 
Trees or shrubs, foliage scurfy or stellate-pubescent. 
5. Elaeagnaceae. 
Herbs, foliage glabrous. 6. Santalaceae. 
1. RHAMNACEAE, 
Flowers in axillary clusters, yetals short clawed, fruit a drupe. 
1. Rhamnus.. 
Flowers in terminal and axillary clusters, petals with very long 
claws, fruit dry. 2. Ceanothus. 
1. Rhamnus. 612, 
Flowers 2 or 3 together in the axils not umbeled. 
Petals present, calyx teeth 4, nutlets 2. 1. R. lanceolata. 
Petals wanting, calyx teeth 5, nutlets 3. 2. R. alnifolla. 
Flowers in axillary peduncled umbels. 3. R. caroliniana. 
