. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. 38. GOURD FAMILY. Ordi-r SucculcMit or tender lierhs, with aUernato and nuliate- veined leaves, and with tendrils. Flowers coinnionlv nio- ncccions, in the axils. Fertile tlowtirs wiih iIh; tuhe of tlu; calyx coherent with the ovary. I't-lals often united with each other into a nionopetahjiis conjlla, and united with or bcnne on th(! cuj) of tlie calyx. Stamens <;enei
. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. 38. GOURD FAMILY. Ordi-r SucculcMit or tender lierhs, with aUernato and nuliate- veined leaves, and with tendrils. Flowers coinnionlv nio- ncccions, in the axils. Fertile tlowtirs wiih iIh; tuhe of tlu; calyx coherent with the ovary. I't-lals often united with each other into a nionopetahjiis conjlla, and united with or bcnne on th(! cuj) of tlie calyx. Stamens <;enei'ally 3. and more or connected hy their antliers or iheir filaments, or 1)y both ; the anthers curiously contoited. Fruit a ])ej)0 (224), 1 eny. or ]K)d. Seeds l,ir_'c, and Hat ; the whole kernel is an em- bryo. The most imporlant plants of the family are those culiivatcMl. .W,. Stiiniiiiiili' Miiuci- iif ;i Scpmsli, witli Hw ciirnlhi .'iml iiji'it part nf fli'' rulyx nit away, fn tlio iinitMl staiiwiH. â "^i". Till' lailir, iiilaiu'ril, and llic llla^s nf aiitliiTM rut across. "ilh. Srpaiati' slaiinn of a .Mi'', riilaiyi'il, .sliowilij,' the lung ami aiilljrr. ;;rp'.i. Kmliiyci ul'tcinaslj. ;i7l'. Sci'iidii nl'saiiii-, a liltir i'iiliii;,'cil, si I'li i'arable. I'etals white, with greeidsh veins, reduncles very long. Fruit with a hard or woody rind variously shaped, (Ldi/oulrin) *l'OTTLE-GoURD. Petals yellow. Calyx with ii bell-shaped cup. Seeds pointed and sliarp-edged. Fruit narrow, rough-pimpled when young, (Cucuniin .^dfirufi) *Cnci;MHKii. Fruit thick, smotjth, sweet. Fertile flowers perfect, (Citcumis Mclo) *Mi;skmeL()N'. Petals huff or cream-colour. Calyx with hardly any cup. Leaves much cut. Fruit large and smooth, sweet. Seeds thick edged, smooth. {CitriiJIus) *\\. T'ruit a rougl), reddish berry. Seeds wrinkled, {Momordint) *'1 Ovary and fruit i-sceded or .^-seeded. Small-flowered clind)ers, wild i
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