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lobed, cordate; flowers yellow or orange, showy, monoecious, 

 solitary; sterile flowers with 3 stamens; fertile flowers with 3 

 staminodia, a 1-celled ovary, and 3-5 stigmas, 2-lobed; calyx- 

 tube bristly, sepals linear; corolla bright yellow or light orange, 

 pubescent, berries green, variegated with paler green or yel- 

 low. Cultivated, ________ Cucurbita 



a. Stems long-running, -________b 



a. Stems not long- running, - _-_-___ c 



b. Stems and petioles prickly; leaves 3-5 lobed; calyx-lobes narrow, 

 not leaf-like; corolla-tube expanding upwards, border with short 

 erect lobes; fruit-stalk hard and furrowed, not enlarged next 



the fruit; fruit various in form, color and size, - C. pepo, Pumpkin 



b. Stems less prickly, sometimes soft-hairy; leaves lobed but more 

 rounded than of the preceding species; calyx-lobes longer, often 

 leaf-like; corolla-tube expanding upwards, border with large 

 erect lobes; fruit-stalk deeply furrowed, and much enlarged next 



the fruit. C. moschata imeloniformis), Cushaw, Crookneck 



c. Stems often hairy; leaves orbicular or reniform, commonly not 



lobed; corolla-tube not expanding; fruit-stalk soft and spongy, 

 not furrowed, and not prominently enlarged next the fruit; fruit 

 various, but not warty nor crookneck shaped. - C. maxima, Squash 



c. Like C. pepo, but plant compact, little or not running. 



C. pepo, var condensa, Scallop 



c. Stems slender, leaves usually prominently lobed; fruit small, 

 hard, egg- or pear-shaped, often striped; inedible. 



C. pepo, var. ovifera, Gourd 

 4. The Luffa, Rag-gourd or Dishcloth-gourd, is grown for the fibrous 

 interior of the dried fruit, which when bleached and prepared 

 may be used as bath-sponge, etc. — Flowers white, sometimes 

 striped with green, monoecious; the sterile in a long-peduncled 

 raceme, the fertile solitary or short-peduncled; corolla yellow- 

 ish-white; stamens 3 on the calyx-tube; pepo long, gourd-like, 

 dry when ripe. 



170. Campanulaceae, Bell-flower Family. 



Herbs with alternate, exstipulate simple leaves and 

 perfect, regular flowers; calyx 3-5 lobed; corolla 5-lobed; 

 stamens 5, free from the corolla, distinct, often ciliate; 

 ovary inferior, 2-5 celled; style single, often hairy above; 

 stigmas as many as the cells in the ovary; fruit a capsule 

 with many seeds. 



1. Coro!!a campanulate; inflorescence racemose or paniculate; — calyx 

 and corolla 5-lobed; stamens 5. broad below; ovary 3-5 celled, 

 stigmas 3-5. _____ - Campanula, Bell-flower 



C. Floridana. Smooth; stems wiry; reclining; leaves lar. sessile; cor- 



olla small, as long as the sepals, blue or pale-purple. Around lakes. Spring 

 and Summer. 

 I* Corolla rotate; inflorescence spicate; — flowers of two kinds, the ear- 

 ones cleistogamous, usually with 3-4 lobed calyx and an 



