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9. R. Uva-CRISPA, Garden Gooseberry. 



SUm prickly; leaves roundish, 3 to 5-lobed, hairy beneath, on short hairy petioles; 

 peduncles hairy, 1-flowered ; calyx bell-shaped ; style hairy; fruit smooth or hairy, 

 globose. Native of England. Common in cultivation. Varieties numerous, with 

 red, green and amber fruit very large. 



Order 46. PASSIFLORACEJE. 



Herbaceous or shrubby plants, usually climbing by tendrils, alternate, often glan- 

 dular leaves, foliaceous stipules, and axillary and terminal flowers often with a 

 3-leaveil involucre. Sepals 5, combined in a tube, the throat crowned with a double 

 or triple fringe. Petals 5, arising from the throat of the calyx, sometimes wanting. 

 Stamens 5, monodelphous, rarely indefinite, surrounding the stipe of the ovary. 

 S ttles 3. Ovary superior, on a large stipe, 1-celled. Fruit many-seeded, placentae, 

 sometimes 3-valved. 



1. PASSIFLOKA. Linn. Passion-flower. 



Lat. passio, passion, and flos, a flower ; the several parts of the flowers, were 

 compared to the instruments of the Saviour's passion. 



Calyx colored, deeply 5-parted, the throat crowned with 

 a double or triple fringe. Petals 5, inserted into the 

 calyx, or none. Stamens 5; their filaments situated on the 

 stipe of the ovary, separate and spreading. Anthers large, 

 fixed by the middle. Stigmas 3, club-shaped, capitate. 

 Fruit a pulpy berry, many-seeded. — Perennial climbing 

 herbs or shrubs, with palmately lobed leaves, generally with 

 stipules, and showy flowers on axillary peduncles. 



1. P. LUTEA, L. Yellow Passion-floicer. 



Smooth, slender ; leaves cordate, 3-lobed ; petioles without glands; stipules min- 

 ute; peduncles mostly in pairs ; petals narrow, much longer than the calyx. 



Banks of streams; Southern part of the State. June, July. Stem climbing, 

 Blender, 3 to 10 feet long. Leaves yellowish-green, nearly as broad as long. Flowtrs 

 email, greenish-yellow. Crown in 3 rows, the inner row a membraneous disk with 

 a fringed border. Fruit dark-purple. 



2. P. INCARNATA, L. Flesh-colored Passion-flower. 



Leaves smooth, 5-nerved, deeply 3-cleft, lobe oblong, acute, serrate; petioles with 

 2 glands; involucre 3-leaved, obovate, glandular, serrate; crown triple; ovary 

 smooth. A handsome cultivated species, native of the Southern States. Stem 

 climbing, 10 — 20 — 30 feet. Flowers large and showy, on pedicels. Petals white, 

 oval-oblong. Two outer rows of filaments long, purple with a whitish base, the 

 i»ner row of short rays, flesh-color. Berry pale-yellow, eatable. 



Order 47. CUCURBITACEJE. 



Herbaceous mostly succulent vines, with tendrils, alternate palmately veined leaves, 

 asud axillary monaxious or dioecious flowers. Calyx 5-toothed, sometimes indis- 

 tinct Corolla 5-parted, scarcely distinguishable from the calyx, strongly marked 

 vri&h reticulated veins. Stambxs 5, distinct, or cohering in 2 or 3 sets. Axehebs 



