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know from Lery, above cited, that the natives of Brazil used 

 Cucurbitce, for bowls and drinking-vessels, at least as early 

 as 1557. Moreover, the richness of the Tupi vocabulary in 

 gourd-names suggests — if it does not absolutely prove — that 

 several varieties of Lagenaria were known to the Brazilians 

 long before the visit of Piso and Marcgrav. The " Tesoro de 

 la Lengua Guarani " (o Tupi} of Father Ruiz de Montoya 

 was first printed in 1G39. It gives for gourd ("calabaco"), 

 the Tupi general name, " la " [which is a compound of 

 t " water," and yd or a " fruit "] , and for the varieties — among 

 others — it names tact " round gourd " ; idyurumi " narrow- 

 mouthed gourd " ; tail " long-necked gourd " ; idobd " wide- 

 mouthed gourd " ; mquatia " painted gourd " ; idcuipe, " spoon 

 gourd " (used for making spoons) ; idape " small gourd, used 

 for drinking " ; idqaa " great gourd " ; idcui " gourd like a 

 great dish " or bowl, etc. : not including the derivatives of cm, 

 or the edible " calabacas " — to be mentioned hereafter. 



" Acosta, too," says M. De Candolle, " speaks of Cale- 

 basses which the Peruvians used for cups or vases, but the 

 Spanish edition of his book is of 1591, more than a hundred 

 years after the conquest." (?) Acosta says more than this. 

 After mention of the " Calebasses or Indian Pompions . . . 

 especially those which ai-e proper to the country" [Peru], he 

 adds : " There are a thousand kinds of Calebasses ; some are 

 so deformed in their bigness that of the rind cut in the midst 

 and cleansed, they make, as it were, baskets to put in all their 

 meat for their dinner. Of the lesser, they make vessels to 

 eat and drink in," etc. (Hist. nat. y moral de las Indias ; 

 translation, revised by Markham, lib. iv., c. 19, p. 238.) 



Cucurbita maxima, C. Pepo, C. moschata. Pumpkin, 

 Squash, etc. — In the " G6ographie Botanique " not one of 

 the cultivated Cucurbitce is attributed to America, and a ref- 

 erence to Nuttall's record that the warted squash was grown 

 by the Indians on the upper Missouri is the only mention of 

 any aboriginal cultivation of squashes in North America. In 

 the present volume there is merely a reference, in this re- 

 spect, to Dr. Harris's article in this Journal (xxiv., 1857), 

 and to Mr. Trumbull's note in the " Bulletin of the Torrey 



