_ DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 377 
in the dialect of New England, asg, plural asquash, ‘green 
Eliot, in his version of 
They gather the 
squashes and immediately place them on the fire without any 
further trouble. . . . The natives makes great account of this 
goed Deseript. of N. Netherlands, 1656; transl. in N. Y. 
wt. Soc. Coll.,.2 Ser., i, 186. 
Thus far, we have cited, with one or two exceptions, Ameri- 
can authorities. M. DeCandolle, after mentioning “the three 
