21 8 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



III. 



Common Yellow Field. 

 The fruit is rounded, a little deeper than broad, flattened at the ends, and rather 

 regularly and more or less prominently ribbed. 

 Cttcurbita indica. Ca1a.Epit.2gi. 1586. 

 Melopepo teres. Lob. Icon. 1:643. iSQi- 

 Pepo tnaximus rotundus. Ger. 773. 1597. 

 Cucurbita as per a Icon. I. Bauh. J. 2:218. 1651. 

 Cucurbita folio aspero, zucha. Chabr. 130. 1673. 

 Common Yellow Field Pumpkin. 



IV. 

 Long Yellow. 

 The fruit is oval, much elongated, the length nearly, or often twice, the diameter, of large 

 size, somewhat ribbed, but with markings less distinct than those of the Common Yellow. 



Cucumis Turcicus. Fuch. 698. 1542. 



Melopepo. Roeszl. 116. 1550. 



Pepo. Trag. 831. 1552. 



Cucurbita indica longa. Dalechamp 1:617. 1587. 



Pepo maximus oblongus. Ger. 773. 1597. 



Pepo major qblongus. Dod. 635. 1616; Bodaeus 782. 1644. 



Cucurbita folio aspero, zucha. Chabr. 130. 1673. 



Long Yellow Field Pumpkin. 



The Jurumu Lusitanus Bobora of Marcgravius * and Piso ' would seem to belong 

 here except for the leaves, but the figure is a poor one. 



These forms just mentioned, all have that something in their common appearance 

 that at once expresses a close relationship and to the casual observer does not express 

 differences. 



We now pass to some other forms, also known as pumpkins, but to which the term 

 squash is sometimes applied. 



The Nantucket pumpkin occurs in various forms under this name, but the form 

 referred to, specimens of which have been examined, belongs to Cucurbita pepo Cogn., 

 and is of an oblong form, swollen in the middle and indistinctly ribbed. It is covered 

 more or less completely with warty protuberances and is of a greenish-black color when 

 ripe, becoming mellowed toward orange in spots by keeping. It seems closely allied to 

 the courge sucrihe du Bresil of Vilmorin. It is not the Cucurbita verrucosa of Dalechamp, 

 1587, nor of J. Bauhin, 1651, as in these figures the leaves are represented as entire and 

 the fruit as melon-formed and ribbed. 



In 1884, there appeared in our seedmen's catalogs, under the name of Tennessee 

 Sweet Potato pimipkin, a variety very distinct, of mediimi size, pear-shape, little ribbed, 

 creamy-white, striped with green, and the stem swollen and fleshy. Of its history nothing 

 has been ascertained, but it bears a strong likeness in shape to a tracing of a piece of 

 " pumpkin pottery " exhtuned from the western mounds. In Lobel's history, 1576, and 



' Piso Hist. Rerum Nat. Bras. 44. 1648. 

 Piso De Ind. 264. 1658. 



