DESCRIPTION OF CUCURBITA 
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pubescent; flowers nearly as large as in C. Pepo and similar in 
shape, the pistillate on a peduncle two to three inches long. Fruit 
size and shape of an orange, smooth, green, and yellow splashed, 
not edible._____-____. C. foetidissima . 
5. Leaves pale green, often marbled, in outline ovate or subor- 
bicular, cordate at base, roundly 5 dobed and the sinus rounded. 
Calyx tube short and campanulate. Fruit large, fleshy, round- 
ovoid, white-striped, the flesh white— --_C. ficifolia. 
6. Leaf blades 3 to 5 dobed, sometimes deeply so. Pedicels; over 
5 cm. long. Similar to C. foetidissima in habit, but more slender. 
Perhaps a naturalized form of C. Pepo.~„ — _C. texana 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES 
1. Cucurbita Pepo. — Stems long and trailing, or short and 
more or less erect, not inclining under the weight of the fruit; 
Figure 1. 
