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GENUS 4. GOURD FAMILY. 293 
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1. Cyclanthera dissécta (T.& G.) Arn. Cut- Nl 
leaved Cyclanthera. Fig. 4or3. 3 } aS aK, 
Discanthera dissecta T. & G. Fl. N. Act: 697. 1840. ] in Pica 
epeaiihens dissecta Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 3: 280. AE & 
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Annual; stem grooved and angular, glabrous, S Jia 
branching, climbing to a height of 3°-4°, or strag- 
gling. Petioles 1’-2" long; leaves digitately 3-7- 
foliolate, the leaflets oval or oblong, usually acute at 
each end, #’-2’ long, rough on both sides, dentate, 
or somewhat lobed; staminate flowers racemose, 
borne on a peduncle 3’-2’ long; pistillate flowers 
solitary, very short-peduncled; fruit narrowed at 
the base, slightly oblique, about 1’ long, armed 
with slender spines. 
Thickets, Kansas to Texas, Louisiana and northern 
Mexico. July—Sept. 
5. SICYOS L. Sp. Pl. 1013. 1753. 
Annual climbing vines, with branched tendrils, angled or lobed leaves, and small white 
or green monoecious flowers. Calyx-tube campanulate or cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla 
campanulate or rotate, 5-parted nearly to the base. Staminate flowers corymbose or race- 
mose, with 3 stamens, ‘the filaments united into a short column, the anthers coherent; pistil 
wanting. Pistillate flowers several together in capitate long-peduncled clusters, with no 
stamens; ovary oblong or fusiform, 1-celled; ovule 1, pendulous; style short, slender; stigmas 
usually 3. Fruit spiny, indehiscent, 1-seeded. [Greek, a cucumber or gourd.] 
About 35 species, natives of America and Australasia. Besides the following typical species, 
2 others occur in the southwestern states. 
1. Sicyos angulatus L. One-seeded Bur- 
Cucumber. Star Cucumber. Fig. gor. 
Sicyos angulatus L. Sp. Pl. 1013. 1753. 
Stem angled, more or less viscid-pubescent, climb- 
ing to a height of 15°-25°, or trailing. Petioles 
stout, 1’-4’ long, pubescent; leaves nearly orbicular, 
rough on both sides, rather thin, deeply cordate at 
the base, 5-angled or 5-lobed, the lobes acute or 
acuminate, the margins denticulate; staminate flow- 
ers loosely corymbose or racemose, borne on elon- 
gated peduncles; fertile flowers capitate, their pe- 
duncles shorter; fruits sessile, 3-10 together, yellow- 
ish, about 4’ long, pubescent, armed with slender 
rough spines. 
Along river banks and in moist places, Quebec and 
Ontario to Florida, west to South Dakota, Kansas and 
Texas. Naturalized in eastern Europe. Called also 
nimble kate, wild cucumber. Leaves sometimes 10’ across. 
June-Sept. 
Family 42. CAMPANULACEAE Juss. Gen. 163. 1780. 
BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 
Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or even trees), with alternate exstipulate 
leaves, usually milky juice, and racemose spicate paniculate or solitary perfect 
flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its limb mostly 5-lobed or 5-parted, the 
lobes equal or slightly unequal, valvate or imbricate in the bud, commonly per- 
sistent. Corolla gamopetalous, regular, inserted at the line where the calyx be- 
comes free from the ovary, its tube entire, or deeply cleft on one side, its limb 
5-lobed. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla-lobes, inserted with the corolla; 
filaments separate; anthers 2-celled, introrse, separate or connate. | Ovary 2-5- 
celled (rarely 6-10-celled, with the placentae projecting from the axis, or 1-celled 
