. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 412 CUPHEA CUPHEA toothed, scarlet at the base, yellow towards the top, greenish at the mouth; stamens and filaments red: ovary 2-celIed, many-seeded. Mex. HBK. Nov. i. Pistillate flower of Cucurbita maxima Hubbard Sauash (X%). 604. Stem of Cucurbita maxima—Hubbard Squash, Sp. 6, p. 209, t. 551. 1857
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 412 CUPHEA CUPHEA toothed, scarlet at the base, yellow towards the top, greenish at the mouth; stamens and filaments red: ovary 2-celIed, many-seeded. Mex. HBK. Nov. i. Pistillate flower of Cucurbita maxima Hubbard Sauash (X%). 604. Stem of Cucurbita maxima—Hubbard Squash, Sp. 6, p. 209, t. 551. 1857, p. 151. 10:994 (1854).—The picture first cited shows a 1-sided raceme, the second a panicle and the third a common raceme. In this species the calyx tube is the attractive portion, while the petals are inconspicuous. The tube is not 2- lipped, but almost regular. AA. Petals 6, all conspicuous^ hut S of them much larger than the rest. prociimbens, Cav. Annual, herbaceous, 1 in. high, procumbent, sticky-pubescent, with characteristic pur plish hairs: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, with white hairs, 1%- 3 in. long, gradually decreasing in size until they be- come bract-like, petiole short: fls. numerous, peduncles longer than the petioles, 2 or 3 times shorter than the calyx; calyx 6-toothed, purplish at the base, green at the tip, with 12 raised streaks, and a pubescence like that of the stem; petals 6, the 2 larger ones on the upper lip of the calyx purple; filaments included. Mex. 3:182. 0. purpiirea, Hort. F. S. 4:412. 22:85; said to be a hybrid between G. miniata and G. viscos- sima, is probably not distinct. AAA. Petals 6, all of the same size. hyssopiI61ia, HBK. Fig. 606. Stem shrubby; branches numerous, strigose; Ivs. lanceolate, rather acute, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, strigose-pilose along the midrib and veins, as may be seen with a hand lens: fls. with their slender pedicels scarcely longer than the Ivs.; calyx glabrous; petals 6, somewhat unequal,
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