1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 729 
A careful comparison with the figures and the description 
given would seem to bring together as synonyms: 
Cucumis marinus. Fuchs., 1542, 699; Roszlin, 1550, 116. 
Cucumis vel zucco marinus. Trag., 1552, 835. 
Cucurbita indica rotunda. Lugd., 1 587.1. 116, 
Pepo rotundus minor. Dod., 1616, 666. 
Pepo minor rotundus. Bodzns, 1644, 783. 
Cucurbite folio aspero, sive zucche. Icon., IV., Chabr., 1673, 
130. 
The Maycock. Ger., 1633, 919. 
The Perfect Gem, 1881. 
The distinctions between the various forms of Cucurbits seem to 
have been kept in mind by the vernacular writers, who did not 
use the words pumpion, gourd,etc,as synonyms. Thus in 1 535 
Cartier" mentions as found among the Indians of Hochelega, 
now Montreal, “ pompions, gourds." In 1 586 Heriot * mentions 
in Virginia * pompions, melons, and gourds," and Captain John 
Smith * pumpions and macocks; Strachey, who was in Virginia 
in 1610, mentions macocks and pumpions as differing. * Pum- 
pions and gourds” arenamed by Smith ® for New England in 
I614. In 1648, at the mouth of the Susquehanna, mention is 
made of “symnels and maycocks.” ** 
The word squash in its early use, we may hence conclude, ap- 
plied to those varieties of Cucurbits which furnished a summer 
vegetable, and was carefully distinguished from the pumpkin. 
Kalm ® in the eighteenth century distinguishes between pump- 
kins, gourds, and squashes. The latter are the early sorts; the 
gourd includes the late sorts useful for winter supplies; and the 
pompion or melon, the latter name and contemporary use giving 
the impression of roundness and size; and Jonathan Carver * 
soon after gives indication of the confusion now existing in the 
Cartier. Pink. Voy., XII., 656. 
® Pink. Voy., XII., 596. 
82 Strachey. Trav. into Va., 72. 
® Smith. Desc, of New Eng., II., 16. 
** A Description of New Albion. Force Coll., II. 
$ Kalm. Trav., 1770-1, I., 140. 
% Carver. Travels in the Northwest in 1776, p. 211. 
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