. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. 38. GOUED FAMILY. Order CUCCRBITACE^E. Succulent or tender herbs, with alternate and radiate- veined leaves, and with tendrils. Flowers commonly mo- noecious, in the axils. Fertile flowers with the tube of the calyx coherent with the ovary. Petals often united with eacii other into a monopetalous corolla, and united with or borne on the cup of the calyx. St?mens ge
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. 38. GOUED FAMILY. Order CUCCRBITACE^E. Succulent or tender herbs, with alternate and radiate- veined leaves, and with tendrils. Flowers commonly mo- noecious, in the axils. Fertile flowers with the tube of the calyx coherent with the ovary. Petals often united with eacii other into a monopetalous corolla, and united with or borne on the cup of the calyx. St?mens generally 3, and more or less connectef} by their anthers or their filaments, or by both • the anthers curiously contorted. Fruit a pepo (224), berry, or pod. Seeds large and flat; the whole kernel is an em- bryo. The most important plants of the family are those cultivated. 368. Rturiiinnte flower of a Sqnuh, with the corolla and upper part of the calyx cut away, to »hnw the united ttamen>. 367. The liiiter, eiihiijieil, anil the niasn of antheri cut acroci. 368. t>eparnte sininen of a Melon, enlarged, Eliuwing the lung Knd cuutorUd anther. 369. Kmbryo uf tSqnaah. 37U, Srciioiiof lame, a little enlaigeil, eeen eUgewiw. Petals united into a large, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, yellow corolla. Stamens with three fila- ments united into a tube, except at the bottom: the anthers also firmly grown together; the turns of their long cells parallel, running straight up and down. Style 1: stigmas 3; each 2-lobed. Fruit large, firm-fleshy. Seeds with a blunt edge, (CucurOita) *Gourd, i. e. Petals united only at the base or separate. Anthers loosely crooked. [Squash and Pumpkin. Ovary and fruli many-seeded. Anthers and filaments 3, separate or separable. Petals white, with greenish veins. Peduncles verj' long. Fruit with a hard or woody rind variously shaped, (Lagenui-ia) *Bottle-Goced. Petals yellow. Calyx with a bell-shaped cup. Seeds pointed and sharp-edged. Fruit narrow, rough-pimpled
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