THE CUCUMBER.Though the melon is far superior in point of flavour to this fruit, yet it is allied to the cucumber, which is known to naturalists as Cucumia sativus.

PROPERTIES AND USES OF THE CUCURBITS.The common cucumber is the C. sativus of science, and although the whole of the family have a similar action in the animal economy, yet there are some which present us with great anomalies.

CROCUS sativus.

Cucumis sativus.

Raphanus sativus.