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376 DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. — 
is a description of “ Macocks Virginiant, sive Pepo Virginianus ; 
the Virginian Macock or Pompion” . 919, 921). The de- 
scription is dated, 1621, and signed by John Goodyer. The 
plant has “great broad shrivelled yellow flowers, like those of 
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the common Pompion. e fruit, ‘somewhat round, not 
larger than the Pompions, and have a long narrow neck, ee 
he Cushaws and Pompions they lay by, which will keep 
several months good, after they are gathered” (p. 152). Bart- 
‘“We abound with . . . sundry sorts of fruits, as musk-melons, 
water-melons, Indian pompions, Indian pease, beans, and many 
, who 
to 1633, says, of the Indians of Massachusetts: “In summer, 
