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Show WILD or SQUIRTING CUCUMBER. MOMORDICA ELATERIUM. UBBER, > neni ELASTICA. Class XXY. Moneecia. Ee Ussevr. Gen. Cuar. Order 1X. Monadelphia. hoso-campanulate, Filaments three: semi ] lla none: five, coalescing. Female flower— > patent, solitary, terminating in a raceme: Corolla none: ata three: Cap Order X. Syngenesia. Male flower—Calyxfive-cleft: Corolla five-parted ; Female flower—Calyx five-cleft: Corolla five-parted , Styles trifid: Fruit a pome bursting « lastically. Spec. Cuar. Pome hispid: Cirrhi none. SS le three-celled, swoody, very hard. DESCRIPTION, Tins trails like the common cucumber. Leaves heart-shaped, slightly sinuated, veined, rough, reticulate, upon long foot. or sixty feet. Leaves on the Flowers ve ryZs inconspicuous, j ’ terminal. : of areSouthRhe America, grows abundant inpets the », and along the m of Mexico. yrders of the river Amazons, subber, as it ts called, stalks. Flower from the axilla: of the leaves, of a bright yellow, reticulated with green veins. Germen beneath the calyx and 00+ rolla, conspicuous, terminated in a pomedivided into three cells, containing many flat seeds, which when ripe upon being touched spirts the seeds covered with juice into your face, if you are not on your ¢ HISTORY. > Juice of this tree. Native of the south of Europe, and flowers in June and July. dissolyed ruments by in ethe ner, and thet thenemade into various surgica wite becomes al The Indians makebootsoffiIt, evaporation, and coating sold 5 5 : ° ‘ ra ; wwral ron excellent metallic clastic bougie. and burn it for cand andles and flambeaux » Which produce a cleat dazzling light without smoke. MEDICAL VIRTUES. since the time of Gerard the wild cucumberhas been regularly ullivated in this country for medical use: all the parts of the |