GOURD FAMILY 65 
leaves ee a Atti a cpg: or the uppermost coarsely serrate, or the smaller best 
narro and entire; peduncles 2-3 dm. long; heads 3-4 cm. broad, the flower s very dark purple 
varying . pale sialon i or sire corolla 10-12 mm. long ; gue of fruiting calyx 6-10 mm. Mine 
sca es rou 
cai from gardens, and naturalized in the Sacramento Valley and San Rings ped roo region; also Santa 
Barbara, ee Bernardino, and San Diego Counties, California. Native of Eur May-Nov. Old L ady’s Pin- 
Family 147. CUCURBITACEAE. 
GOURD FAMILY. 
ostly herbaceous annual or perennial vines, trailing or climbing by means of 
tenia with alternate petioled leaves and solitary, racemose, paniculate or cymose, 
monoecious or dioecious flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its limb usually 5- 
lobed. Petals usually 5, separate or united, inserted on the limb of the calyx. Stamens 
mostly 5, the androecia highly pal throughout the family. Ovary 1—3-celled ; 
style simple or lobed; ovules few or numerous. Fruit a pepo, indehiscent, or rarely 
dehiscent at the summit, or bursting erreoulatiy Seeds commonly flat ; endosperms 
none 
Flowers yellow, large; pistillate ao staminate flowers solitary. 1. Cucurbita. 
ers white or greenish, small; minate flow racemose or paniculate 
Fruit symmetrical, oblong, raat or = 1. a cm. long; ovary 2—4-celled. 
awe — roots slender ae setey 2. Echinocystis. 
Seeds turgid; roots very lar can tedden 
Fruit reas 1 cm. or less Hhteter ovary 1-celled. 4. Brandegea. 
1. CUCURBITA [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 1010. 1753. 
ough prostrate vines, rooting at the nodes, with branched tendrils, Revere lobed leaves 
which are often cordate at the base, and large, yellow, axillary, monoecious flowers. Calyx 
tube campanulate, usually 5-lobed. Corolla eenien: 5- iobed to shiek the middle, the 
or less united. Pistillate flowers with 1 pistil; ovary oblong, with 3-5 many-ovuled 
lacentae; style short, thick; stigmas 3-5, each 2-lobed, papillose; staminodia 3. Fruit 
large, fleshy, with a thick rind, indehiscent ; seeds horizontal, many. [Latin name for the 
gourd. 
An American genus of about 15 species, mainly tropical. Type species: Cucurbita pepo L. 
Leaves triangular-ovate, longer than broad, scarcely lobed and often angled at base; tendrils long-petiolate. * 
oetidissima, 
Leaves soe pingeigers lobed or divided to the base, as broad as or broader than long; sediile senate or short 
iolat 
Lome s-cleft to the base with narrowly lanceolate or linear lobes, these often sublobed toward Ag 5 em 
igitata. 
Leaves 5-lobed to tk iddl a little below, the lobes broadly lanceolate or triangular. 3. C. palmata. 
5068. Scabiosa atropurpurea 
