II g USES OF PLANTS BY INDIANS [kth. an.n.33 



(•>. Wd/ti" iniKa ska, white icata" miKu. 7. llafo" Tnilla sola, 

 black tpata" TJuKa. 8. Wata" mifia zi, yellow wata" miJia. These 

 last four squashes, called icafa" mlKa, were small summer or fall 

 s<|uaslu's. 



The Omaha i)laiited their s(iuashes at the time of blossomin-r of 

 the wild plum. 



ruciirhiln iiinsimn of Tropical or Suhtroiiical America. The pumpkin called 

 III Hrazillan " juruniu " (.Marcfrr. 44), in Carib " jujuru " or " babora " 

 (iH-sc), aiiJ cultivated from early times: "pompions" were seen by Colum- 

 bus in ]4!>3 on Ouadalopc (F. Colunib. 47) ... (". maxima wa.-< observed by 

 De Soto In 1542 in Florida, and is known to bave been cultivatetl by tlie 

 North American tribes as far as the St. Lawrence." 



April i;:, ir>28 (Cabeza de Vaca. and Cluircliiil Coll.), arrival of exped. of 

 I'amphilo de Narvaez on north side of Gulf of Mexico, west of Mississippi U. 

 Laniled. proceeded inland, and observed pumpkins and beau.s cultivated by the 

 nalives.' 



.\bout their liowses they have commonly square plotts of cleered srownd, 

 which serve them for gardens, some one hundred, some two hundred foote 

 sipiiire, wherein they sowe their tobacco, pumpons, and a fruit like unto a musk 

 million, but lesse and worse, which they call niacock gourds, and such like, 

 which fruicts increase exceedingly, and ripen in the beginning of .Tuly, and 

 contynue until September; they plant also the field apple, the niaracock, a 

 wyld fruit like a kind of poraegranett. which increaseth Inflnitlye, and ripens 

 In August, contynuing untill the end of October, when all the other fruicts be 

 gathereil, but they sowe nether herb, flower, nor any other kynd of fruict.' 



Pepo ma.xima (Duch.) Peterm. Squash. 



This species is found in tropical and subtropical North America. 



The sqiiagli, called by the New England tribes " askittaxquash" (R. Will.), 

 and cultivated from early times: — observed under cultivation by the natives by 

 W. Wood. II. Williams, and Josselyn ; is known to have been cultivated through- 

 out our middle and southern States; by the natives in the West Indies, as 

 appears from Dalechamp pi. G16, and was seen by Chanvalon on Martinique 

 (Poiret diet. nat. xi, 234.) ' 



To tlie southwest, whence came the crop plants of aboriginal cul- 

 ture in Nebraska, the remains in ruins sometimes reveal the identity 

 of plants of ancient culture there. 



The occurrence of squash seeds in some of the iiiorluary bowls is important, 

 indicating the ancient use of this vegetable for food. It may, in this connec- 

 lioil. be borne in mind that one of the scmthern clans of the Hopi Indians was 

 called the Patuu or Squash faniib'.'' 



Pepo pepo, Dr. J. IT. Coulter says, " Has a naturalized variety 

 in southern and western Texas, .... {C. tc.rana Gray)."" 



' rickcring. Chronological History of Plants, pp. 700-710. 



' Ihld., p. 800. 



■William Strachcy, Illstorle of Triivnilc Into Vli-Rlnla nrltannla, p. 72 (1612). 



• rickcrlnR, op. clt., p. 747. 



• Fcwkcs, Two Summers' Work In Pueblo Bulns, p. 101. 

 •Coulter. Botany of Wostem Texas, p. 124. 



