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Squash, or Squonter-Squash, is their name among the northern (i. e, 
New England) Indians.” . . These are summer squashes, “ never 
eaten after they are ripe.” 
““The Virginian Macock or Pompion, Macocks Virginiani, sive 
Pepo Virginianus,” is described in Jolinson’s Gerarde (1636) p. 919; 
and on p. 920, he figures “The small round Indian Pompion” and 
“The cornered Indian Pompion.” The latter, from the figure, may 
be our common scallop squash. On page 921, he describes the Vir- 
ginian Water-melon, “melones aquatici edules”—from a specimen 
_ brought Oct. 10, 1621, by John Goodyer. The other species, he 
says, “are common in England,” but the last described (the Water- 
melon) “is as yet a stranger.” 
The Virginian Cushaw (now “ sometimes spelt Kershaw,” accord- 
ing to Bartlett, who notes it as a “ Western” name) was, I 
think, our old-fashioned winter Crook-neck. In Hariot’s Virginia, 
the name is given as Heushaw, which is probably the Virginian 
equivalent of the northern asgua and asguash, pas of the modern 
Chippeway name of a squash or pumpkin, agwissinan. ‘ These 
Cushaws,” says Beverley (p. 124) “are a kind of Pumpion, ofa blueish 
green color, streaked with white when they are fit for use. They are 
larger than the Pompions, and have a long, narrow neck.” “The 
Cushaws and Pompions they lay by, which will keep several 
months good, after they are gathered.” (p. 152.) 
None of the North America species is described or named by 
Dodoens or his translator, Lyte, in 1578, nor in the excellent old 
Herbal of Jerome Bock (Hieron. Tragus), but the latter, in the 
edition of 1552 (pp. 834-836) describing the “Cucumis seu Zucco 
marinus,” “oder Lndianisch Oepftel,’ mentions it as one of the 
many species of foreign plants introduced, within the past few 
years, to Germany from distant. countries. He distinguishes four 
sorts of “ Mala Indica, Indianisch Oepffel ”—Crocea, Lutea, Cit- 
rina, and Nigra. “The Zucco marina, as they are commonly called, 
because they first came ex ultramarinis regionibus, some from Syria 
and some from India, as their popular names testify, Zucco de Syria 
and Zucco de Peru,’ ete. 
But I will not meddle with the Peruvian or the Mexican species. 
As regards North American varieties, the evidence seems conclu- 
sive. Three varieties at least still bear Indian names, which date 
from the first coming of Europeans, and of these varieties we have 
no mention before they were found in North America. 
J. Hamaonp TruMBvuL.. 
. $73. New or Little-known Ferns of the United States. 
No. 4. 
11. Ophioglossum palmatum, Plumier.--Frond cuneate at the 
base, sometimes entire, but commonly palmately 2-6-lobed, the 
lobes elongated and tapering; spikes 1-8 or more, borne on the 
sides of the stipe just below the lamina, or on the edges of the 
latter near its base. Plant 6-24 inches high, fleshy, epiphytic, 
oftenest on Palms. Rootstock fleshy, tuberous, covered with fine wool- 
like chaff, sending out many cord-like rootlets, and bearing on long 
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