. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 38. GOURD FAMILY. Order CUCURBITACEiE. 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 each other into a monopetalous corolla, and united with or borne on the cup of the calyx. Stamens generally 3,
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 38. GOURD FAMILY. Order CUCURBITACEiE. 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 each other into a monopetalous corolla, and united with or borne on the cup of the calyx. Stamens generally 3, and more or less connected 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. i6. Stuminate flower of a Squash, wilh Ihe corolla anri upper pari of the calyx cut away, to show the united stamens. 367 The latter, enlarged, and the mass of anthers cut across .-15a. Separate statoeo of a Melon, etjlaiged, showing the long and contorted anther. 369. Embryo of Sqnash. 370. Section of sairie, a litt'e enlaiged, seen edgewise. 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, {Cucurbiia) *Goued, i. e. Petals united only at the base or separate. Anthers loosely crooked. [Squash and PuiMPKin. Ovary and fruit many-seeded. Anthers and filaments 3, separate or separable. Petals white, with greenish veins. Peduncles very long. Fruit with a hard or woody rind variously shaped, {Lageiiaria) *Bottle-Gouiid. Petals yellow. Calyx with a bell-shaped cup. Seeds pointed and sharp-edged. Fruit narrow, rough-pimpled when young, ( Ciicumis &am
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