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Gourds or gourd-like plants, as, Coccinia Indica; Cucumis of several 



interesting species, as C. erinaceus, grossulariceformis, odoratissimus ; 



dipper or bottle gourd (Lagenaria) ; 



vegetable sponge, dish-cloth gourd, 



rag gourd {Luffa) ; balsam apple, 



balsam pear (Momordica) ; snake 



gourd {Trichosanthes) ; bryonopsis; 



Abobra viridiflora. 

 All the above except sweet pea are 



quickly cut down by frost. 



6. Twiners 

 Beans, Flowering. 

 Cypress vine. 



Dolichos Lablab; and others. 

 Hop, Japanese. 



Ipomoea Quamoclit (cypress vine) and 

 others. 



Moonflower, several species. 

 Morning-glory. 

 Mina lobata. 



Thunbergia. 265. Sweet pea. 



Mikania scandens.* 



Butterfly pea, Centrosema Virginiana.^ 



Scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus (perennial South) . 



Velvet or banana bean^ Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (for the South). 



Perennial herbaceous climbers. 



(The tops dying down in fall, but the root living over winter and 

 sending up a new top.) 



a. Tendril-climbers or root-climbers 

 Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolius. 



Clematis of various species, as C. aromatica, Davidiana, her acleoe folia 

 {C. tubulosa), are more or less climbing. Most of the clematises 

 are shrubs. 



