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The homely pumpkin is no exception to this rule. Its origin 
must still remain a problem, perhaps, even though it should be 
shown that, like modern man, pumpkins also had ancestors 
Referring to the f : 
“If we consider the stability of types, and the record of variations 
a 
ju 
plant oo our areas Re a superficial studies of the 
specimens brought out little definite information and they were 
put away for future consideration. On a subsequent excursion 
to Lake Okeechobee in May, 1917}, we again found this “ 
in the dense hammocks of the southern ee : Lake Oran: 
In the meantime, there had come ass a certain old 
Spanich record of exploration in F loida—a “memoir” of Her- 
nando me alan e Font neda writ 1 in Spain about the 
ea 
try Aes Abalachi, which isin the direction of Pa’nuco, 
. Sturtevant, The History of Garden Vegetables in American Nat- 
1E, 
uralist, 24: 739. 1890. 
pone! of the New York Botanical Garden fos 73. 914. 
1The American Museum Journal, 28: 684-700. 
