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122. CUCURBITACEAE (Gourd Family) 35 



a. Leaves shallowly 5-angled ; plant clammy-pubescent; fruit about 1.5 cm. long, 

 1 -celled, 1-seeded. 1. Sicyos 



0. Leaves sharply and more deeply 5-lobed; plant nearly glabrous; fruit about 5 



cm. long, 2-celled, usually 4-seeded. 2. Echinocystis 



1. Sicyos L. 



1. S. angulatus L. One-seeded Bur Cucumber. 



Damp borders of streams and marshes, in rich alluvial soils and in damp waste 

 places ; frequent. Aug.-Sept. 



Near Lick Brook; Negundo Woods (D.) ; scattered over the area between Ithaca 

 and Cayuga Lake (D. !) ; Cascadilla Glen; Fall Creek Gorge; Shurger Glen (D.) ; 

 near Ludlowville (D.) ; and elsewhere. 



S. Me. and w. Que. to S. Dak., southw. to Fla., e. Kans., and Tex. ; occasional on 

 the Coastal Plain. 



2. Echinocystis T. & G. 

 1. E. lobata (Michx.) T. & G. Wild Cucumber. Balsam-apple. 



Damp borders of streams and marshes, in rich alluvial soils, and in damp waste 

 places ; scarce. Aug. 



Negundo Woods (D.) ; occasional over the area between Ithaca and Renwick ; 

 Fall Creek, at Forest Home; Canoga Marshes; and elsewhere. Commonly culti- 

 vated and freely escaping, but probably native here. 



N. B. to Alan, and Mont., southw. to Pa., Ga., Ky., Kans., and Tex. ; occasional 

 on the. Coastal Plain. 



123. CAMPANULACEAE (Bluebell Family) 



a.. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, the early ones cleistogamous ; capsule slender- 

 cylindric or prismatic. 1. Specularia 



a. Flowers in a terminal inflorescence, none cleistogamous ; capsule obconic to 

 globose. 2. Campanula 



1. Specularia (Heist.) Fab. 

 1. S. perfoliata (L.) A. DC. Venus's Lookixg-Glass. 



Dry open sterile gravelly or rocky places, in acid soils; frequent. June-July. 



N. of Enfield Glen ; C. U. campus, e. of Caldwell Hall ; n. of Beebe Lake ; 

 Renwick slope; Cayuga Heights: and elsewhere. 



Me. to B. C, southw. to Fla., La., Mex., Ariz u and Oreg., including the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain. 



2. Campanula (Tourn.) L. 



a. Flowers nearly sessile, in spikes or racemes. 



b. Corolla campanulate ; style straight ; capsule with pores at the base. 



1. C. rapunculoides 



b. Corolla rotate; style declined; capsule with apical pores. 2. C. americana 

 a. Flowers long-peduncled, in loose panicles or corymbs. 



b. Stem smooth; corolla 15-25 mm. long. 3. C. rotundifolia 



b. Stem retrorse-scabrous ; corolla 5-10 mm. long. 4. C. uliginosa 



85 Cucurbita maxima Duch. (squash) springs up occasionally on garbage dumps but is not estab- 

 lished. 



