‘“S names of varieties, into the present centur 
: Sop ious sight (que era gloria vella)!” See Navarrete, _ i, 
DeCandolles Origin of Cultivated Plants. 373 
Nevertheless Cucurbita Pepo, wpon botanical indications solely, 
iS attributed to temperate North America in the general table, 
_ toa Mexican or Texan origin in the body of the work. This 
Tests upon the collection by Lindheimer, in Texas, of a form of 
this species, ‘“ apparently indigenous.” That was between 
all that country by the aborigines. If ever found truly indi- 
genous, it will probably be farther south than Texas. m 
ma is now set down as from Guinea, on the strength of a 
Single finding of it “apparently indigenous” on the banks of 
the Niger. ©. moschata (to which Vilmorin refers the Canada 
‘took-neck Squash) is in the list of species of completely 
unknown or uncertain origin. 
> iy and many varieties, ‘were largely cultivated throughout 
‘America, from the tropics to Canada, before the voyages of 
Jolum bus. 
Allusion has already been made (under Lagenaria) to the 
tote 
-O present this evidence, as nearly as possible in the order of 
me, we refer, first, to the relation of the first voyage of 
Columbus. Dec. 8, 1492, entering a small river [the Rio 
near th te d of the island of Cuba, he found 
ar the eastern en FE eM 
aba: 
is not certain that these calabazas were not 
ds (Lagenaria), but it is, to say the least, highly improb- 
