DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 



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This family also contains many other species, such as the 

 deadlv nightshade {Atropa, belladonna), the bittei^sweet (So- 

 lanum dvlcamara), the Jamestown or jimson weed (^Datura 

 stramonium) and many species of ground cherries (Physalis). 



BiGNONiACE.E (Bignonia Family). — Woody plants (trees or 

 climbers) ; flowers large, showy and perfect; fruit a dry capsule 

 containing many large, flat, winged seeds ; leaves simple or com- 



FiG. 221. — Cucurbit blossom. 



pounds, usually opposite. Mostly tropical but represented 

 in the north temperate zone by the well-known trumpet flower 

 (Tecoina radicans) and the catalpa (Catalpa speciosa and 

 C. hignonioides) . 



CucuEBiTACE.E (Gourd Family). — Herbs, mostly trailing or 

 climbing; leaves alternate, palmately veined or lobed; inflo- 

 rescence solitary, sometimes fascicled or racemed ; flowers mostly 

 imperfect, monoecious or dicEcious; five-parted gamosepalous^ 



