556 DIOECIA DIANDIUA 



Vulgd — Hound Squash. Cymling. Gallice — Bonnet de Pvttre. 



Plant hirsute. Root annual. Stem a succulent vine 8 to 12 feet long, ungulur, 

 somewhat branching, procumbent , or sometimes climbing by the branched tendril* : 

 — sometimes the tendrils are converted into imperfect leaves, and the branches 

 themselves very numerous, and flatted , or dilated. Leaves 6 or 8 inches long, and 

 nearly as wide as long, roughish pubescent, subcordate, somewhat o-lobed, the ter- 

 minal lobe rather elongated, lajnring to a paint ; petioles as long as the leaves, 

 and often longer. Flowers yellow, rather large, pedum ulute. Fruit orbicular and 

 much depressed, or buckler-shaped, often some w fiat toiulose, and with the margin 

 tumid, generally smooth, sometimes verrucose, yellow, green, or mottled, finally 

 hard and subligneous. 



Hab. Gardens, and cultivated lots : frequent. Fl. July. Fr. October. 



Obs. Culticated for the young fruit,— -which is generally esteemed as a vegitu* 

 ble sauce, llicre are numerous varieties of the fruit, —and of various qualities. 



3. C. verrucosa, L. Leaves cordate, deeply 5-lobed, denticulate, 

 the middle lode narrowed at base ; fruit clavaie, or elliptic, verrucose. 

 DC. Prodr. 3. p. 317. 



Warty Cucurbita. Vulgd — Warted Squash. Long Squash. 



Plant hirsute. Root annual. Stem a succulent vine 10 to IB Jest long, angular 

 tuul somewhat branching, procumbent, or sometimes elirtibing by the tendrils. 

 Leaves rather larger than in the preceding species, and more deeply lobed. Flow- 

 era yellow, rather large. Fruit varying from elliptic to obovoid, and (fen muck 

 elongated, clavaie and incurved, roughened with uurts or obtuse tubercles, green, 

 yellow, a?' mottled, finally hard a?ul subligneous. 



Hab. Gardens, and cultivated lots: frequent, Fl. July. Fr. October. 



Obs. Cultivated as the preceding ; ami, like it, stibject to several varieties. It 

 is very apt to produce worthless hybrids amongst Pumpkins, when growing near 

 them,— as remarked ujuter No. 1 *, and therefore should never be pluntcd in their 

 immediate vicinity. There are no native species known in the U. States. This 

 last, however, is said, by Mr. Nuttall, to be cultivated by the Indians of the Mis- 

 souri to its sources. 



CLASS XX. DIOECIA. 



Order 2. Diandria* 



446. VALLI8NERIA. /.. JYiM. Gen. 779. 



[In honor of Antonio Vallisneri ; an Italian Bblauisl.] 



St.imijcate Fl. Spat he 2 to 4-parted. SpatKx on a very short 

 ■cape, conical, covered with minute sessile florets. Perianth 3-parted. 

 Pistillate Ft. Scape very long, spiral; or flexuose. Spa the tubu- 

 lar, bifid, 1 -flowered. Perianth 6- parted, the segments alternately 

 orate, and linear. Oxrary inferior, long, linear; stigmas 3, subsessile, 

 ligulate, 8emibifid. Capsule valveless, long, linear, l-celled, many- 

 seeded. Seeds parietal ly attached. 



Herbaceous, submersed aquatics: leaves all radical; flowers on axillary or 

 iutorfoliaceous scapes,— the pistillate ones solitary, with the scape very loug, 

 JMJan&i and dexuose, or spirally twisted. NaU Orel. 231. Lindl. Evuroch auipbjb* 



