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gests in many respects, including flavor and texture, some of tlie wild species of 

 CuGurbita. Most of the other seeds were small (12 X 7 mm.) or medium (15 X 7 

 mm.) in size and probably came from fruits like the small sugar pumpkin grown 

 in the Plains area. There were very few large (18 X 8.5 mm.) seeds and two of 

 these were so thick that they resembled some of the less extreme forms of Cucur- 

 hita mixta, especially the Green-striped Cushaw variety, but this species had not 

 been collected in sites this far east. The only peduncles were of C. pepo. 



Although small fragments of a Cucurbita (probably C. pepo) rind were found, 

 there were no fragments of the bottle gourd (Lagenaria) . 



A single seed (10.5 X 6 X 5 mm.) and some charred pods of the common (or 

 kidney) bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) were not in good enough condition to deter- 

 mine the variety. 

 Wild materials found included, in order of abundance : 

 Wild plum seeds, Prunus americana, and ? 

 Ohokecherry seeds, Prunus virginiana 

 Hackberry seeds, Celtis occidentalis 

 Grass stem fragment. 

 Seeds, Chenopodium ?, goosefoot. 



