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among the govird names are " iacvi-gourd, like a great dish or bowl," which may mean 

 this form. When we examine descriptions, this gourd may perhaps be recognized in 

 Colimiella's account, "Sive globosi corporis, atque utero tninutnum quae vasia tumescit," ' 

 and used for storing pitch or honey; yet a reference to his prose description * rather con- 

 tradicts the conjecture and leads us to believe that he describes only the necked form, 

 and this form seems to have been known only to Palladius.' Pliny * describes two kinds, 

 the one climbing, the other trailing. Walafridus Strabo,' in the ninth century, seems 

 to describe the plebeia of Pliny as a cucurbita and the cameraria as a pepo. The former, 

 apparently, was a necked form and the latter, one in which the neck has mostly disap- 

 peared leaving an oval fruit. Albertus Magnus," in the thirteenth centvuy, describes the 

 cucurbita as bearing its seed " in vase magna," which implies the necked form. The 

 following types are illustrated by the various herbalists: 



Types of Gourds. 



I. 

 Cucurbita oblonga. Fuch. 370. 1542. 

 Cucurbita plebeia. Roeszl. 115. 1550. 

 Cucurbita. Trag. 824. 1552. 

 Curciibita longa. Cardan. 222. 1556. 



Cucurbita. Matth. 261. 1558; Pinaeus 190. 1561; Cam. piY. 292. 1586. 

 Cucurbita sive zuccha, omnium maxima anguiria. Lob. Obs. 366. 1576; Icon. 1:644. 



1591- 



Cucurbita cameraria longa. Dal echamp 1:615. iS^?- 



Cucurbita anguina. Ger. 777. 1597- 



Cucurbita oblonga. Matth. 392. 1598. 



Cucurbita longior. Dod. 161 6. 



Zucca. Dur., C. 488. 1617. 



Cucurbita anguina longa. Bodaeus 784. 1644. 



Cucurbita longa, folio molli, flore albo. Bauh., J. 2:214. 1651; Chabr. 129. 1673. 



Courge massue trh longue. Vilm. 190. 1883. 



Club Gourd. 



II. 



. Ruellius frontispiece 1536. 



Cucurbita minor. Fuch. 369. 1542. 



Cucurbita. Trag. 824. 1552; Matth. 261. 1558; Cam. pf/. 292. 1586. 



Cucurbita marina. Cardan. 222. 1556. 



Cucurbita cameraria. Dalechamp 1:615. 1587. 



Cucurbita lagenaria sylvestris. Ger. 779. 1597. 



Cucurbita prior. Dod. 668. 1616. 



Zucca. Dur., C. 488. 161 7. 



Courge p6Urine. Vilm. 191. 1883. 



Bottle Gourd. 



' Columella lib. 10, c. 383. 



- Columella lib. 11, c. 3. 



' Palladius lib. 9, c. 9. 



* Pliny lib. 19, c. 24. 



Macer Floridus Vir. Herb. Sillig Ed. 146, 147. 1832. 



Albertus Magnus Veg. Jessen Ed. 500. 1867. 



