. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 750 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS CgjHj^^O^g. The plant is intensely bitter. The towel or sponge gourd {Luffa aegyptiaca), a native of Egypt, produces a fruit one foot or more long, filled with a spongy fiber, which when the outer part is removed is used to rub the skin, and for many other domestic purposes. The fruits of many plants of the family are economic. The nara (Acanthosicyos horrida) in Southern Angola is used as food and has
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 750 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS CgjHj^^O^g. The plant is intensely bitter. The towel or sponge gourd {Luffa aegyptiaca), a native of Egypt, produces a fruit one foot or more long, filled with a spongy fiber, which when the outer part is removed is used to rub the skin, and for many other domestic purposes. The fruits of many plants of the family are economic. The nara (Acanthosicyos horrida) in Southern Angola is used as food and has medicinal virtues. The: chayote (Sechium edule) is cultivated in the West Indies for its fruit. The green and ripe fruit. Fig. 437. Colocynth {CilruHus colocynithis). An intensely bitter plant of economic importance. (Af- ter Faguet). of the cucumber {Cucumis sativus) native to India, has long been used for food, especially for pickles, and the West Indian gherkin (C. Anguria) is also cultivated for the same purpose. According to Greshoff the foliage of Cu- cumis metuliferus contains saponin. He also states that he found saponin in the seeds of Lagenaria vulgaris, and Cucurbita maxima. The C. myriocarpus contains the toxic alkaloid myriocarpin. The musk melon {Cucumis Melo), a native to British India, is now widely cultivated. Sugar and nutmeg melons are well known everywhere in North America. The water melon {Citrulhs vulgaris), native to tropical Africa, where large areas of wild plants occur, has long been cultivated in Mediterranean countries, and is well known every- where in North and South America. The citron is a form of the water melon. The common pumpkin (Cucurbita Pepo) is native to southwestern North America, Arizona and Mexico. It is used for stock food and for culinary pur- poses. The nest-egg gourd, bush scalloped squash, crookneck squash and com- mon pumpkin are all from the same species. The seeds of pumpkin and squash are used in North Africa and Egypt much as
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