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i green colour.with an harder barke,now and then fofcer and whiter.The meat within is like the 

 former : the feeds baue alio the 1'ame forme,butare fomewhat leffe. 





I fepdwaximtis oblongus \ 



The great long Pompion. 



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2 Pcpomaximusrctundus. 



The great round Pompion^ 



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3 Of this kinde there is ilfo another Pompion like vnto the former in rough Calks andinsa* 



incd and nicked leaues : the flourc is alfo great and yellow like thofc of the others j thefruit is of 

 a great bigneffe, whofe barke is full of little bunnies or hilly welts, as is the rinde of the Citron 

 which is in like manner yellow when it is ripe. inon ' 



4 The fourth Pompion doth very much differ from the others in form : the ftalks, leaues and 

 Jours are ike tbofe of the reft,but the fruit is not long or round,but altogether broad^d n a ma ; 

 b u i Ilkc Vnt ° * fhieId or buckler > thicker » *te m ^le, thinner in the compare, and cursor 

 wffiS " " ain P f Iacesabout ? e &&&" the ^ggfd or vneuen barkeof the Pomecitron, the 



*Sw ton IVf 1 £*' thm ' aDd ^ hlte '&!*?* mthia , * meetl y hard and dural * •' *e feed ii 



greater tuan that ox the common Cucumber,m forme and colour all one. 



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$ Macocks Virgmuni^iHt Ptpo Virginian 



The Virginian Macock or Pompion. 









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hath rough cornered ftraked trailing branches proceeding from the rOot,eieht< 





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» "i««-Mui giccuc coiour, trai- 

 6f ground .lending forth broad 



as the leaaes 



Com J • wuuwg aiuugn mc crti iijjtoucrmg a great aea'f 



ofT rou 8 h leaues,on great groffc long rough hairy foOtftalks 



thofe rf5 m ° n Pom P ion » wit h clifping tendrels and great broad fhriuelcci yellow flours alfo likr 



^ 1 %Tr a p r r n : the fruit fucceedeth ^ xowi ^ al n ft ^ ***> ~££»S S 



in length SMr^ 5 'f C l PPCr P3 r C t r - t0RS ° f ^ W™*^«!*»b* round, not ex^cW 

 W»d r£L • V 1 b wl * ^J"? £ bl S as an ordinarie bowle, beeirig feldome fouie inch! 



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!«-£!££ ^ K2^£*S^ Pompion, but f^lfer. The root i ? 



^eof min "Ly u T luvr ".*V"» ,1B ; C mc common Fomoion, bu 

 Wui^r y * ranchcS Creepi0g farabroad intheearth,andperUh 



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