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which he distinguishes four kinds, 3L Indlca crocea, hitea, 

 citrina, and nigra. "Commonly," he says, "they are called 

 Zucco marina, because they first came to us from parts 

 beyond the sea, some from Syria, some from India, which the 

 names given them attest ; for they are commonly called Zucco 

 de Syria and Zucco de Peru." 



The figure of Cummer marinns, Ital. Cocomere morino, 

 etc., in the " Effigies Plantarum " of Fuchs, 1549, is a reduced 

 copy of Bock's, and substantially agrees with that of Pepo 

 rotundus in Lyte's " Dodoens," p. 587, which was " called 

 also Cucumis marimiK ; of some, Zucco marino ; in French, 

 Concomhre marin, Pompons Turquins,^' etc. 



Matthioli of Padua (Comm. in Dioscor., ed. 1559, p. 292) 

 is more explicit. " There are," he says, " various kinds of 

 cucurbits foreign to Italy, which can be kept fresh far into 

 the winter. They say that these came into Italy from the 

 West Indies, whence they are called by many Indian. Their 

 taste is sweetish, not so insipid as ours," etc. ; and his figure 

 of Cucvrhita Indlca agrees with that of Bock's Zucco mari- 

 nus (or " Zucco de Peru ") and with Lyte's Pepo i^otiindus. 



It is certain, then, that the botanists of the 16th century to 

 whom M. De Candolle refers, used Indian — when api)lied to 

 varieties of Cucurbita — in the sense of American. In the 

 17th century, the evidence is not less direct. Parkinson 

 (Theatrum Botanieum, 1640, pp. 769, 770) figures and de- 

 scribes (1) Cucurbita lagcnaria major, the greater Bottle 

 Gourd ; (2) C. longa, the long Gourd ; (3, 4) C. clypcifor- 

 mis & verrticoxa, and Angiiria JEgyptiaca, the Simmel 

 [Scallop Squash], and the rugged Gourd [warted Squash, 

 orbiculate depressed], and the Egyptian Citruell or Watery 

 Million ; (5) Cucurbita Indica, oi'alis, pgrifor7nis, cC J'ere 

 rotu7idus, Indian Gourds, oval, pear-fashioned, and almost 

 round. Of these Indian Gourds he says: "There is very 

 great variety of these Gourds (or INIillions, as some call them, 

 or Pompions, as I may call them) tliat came out of America 

 or the West Indies, from sundry })laces, both farther south 

 among the Spanisli colonics, and nearer hand, in our own of 

 Virginia, New England, etc." He notes the great variety 



