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The Cucurbits 



color of the fruits of C. Pcpo (Figs. 1S3, 1S4, 1S6, 187, 

 190, 191). 



AAA. Plant soft to the feel, the foliage as if limp and vel- 

 vety, not strongly upright : leaf-form and margins much 

 as in AA, but sometimes distinctly lobed as in A. often 

 with whitish marks or blotches : tiowers with wide 

 crinkly wide-spreading lobes, the tube broad at base 

 but usually not bulging ; calyx-lobes often long and 

 expanding into a leaf-like structure at the end : peduncle 

 much as in A, usually expanding more widely at its 

 juncture with the mature fruit : C. moschata, Duchesne. 

 Diet. Sci. Nat. xi, 234. 1818. Cushaw and Winter 

 Crookneck Squashes. Many of the forms of this species 

 appear to be oriental. The Canada Crookneck belongs 

 here, as also the Yokohama. Quaker Pie, Japanese Pie. 

 Jonathan (Figs. 185, 192, 193). 



The three species of Cucurbita described above are coarse 

 long-running plants (except that there are bush varieties of 

 C. Pepo), with large alternate leaves on hollow petioles and 

 forking tendrils arising from the .side of the stem near the 

 axils : stem angled, rooting at some of the joints : staminate 

 flowers long-peduncled and therefore conspicuous ; pistillate 

 (female) flowers short-stalked and therefore lower down 

 among the foliage; stamens 3, with very broad fllaments sep- 

 arate near the base but upwardly joined and with the united 

 anthers making a single central column in the flower; ovary 

 inferior. 3-celled, the 3 large stigmas 2-lobed, the bottom of 

 the pistillate flower provided with a prominent cup-like disc 

 which leaves its scar on the " blossom end " of the fruit : the 

 peduncle or stem of the fruit is characteristic of the species, 

 as described above and shown in the illustrations (Figs. 180-2, 

 183-4, 185) : seeds various in size between the species as also 

 between varieties in the same species, elliptic-ovate in outline, 

 flat, or somewhat plumper in C. maxima and C. moschata. 

 those of the yellow-flowered gourds (C. Pepo var. orifera) 

 about 1/2 in. long and % in. broad and weighing 60 to 



