730 The American Naturalıst. [August, 
definition of what constitutes a pumpkin and a squash when he 
says, “the melon or pumpkin, which by some are called squashes,” 
and he names among other forms the same variety, the crook- 
neck, or crane-neck as he calls it, which Kalm classed among 
gourds. 
At the present time the word squash is only used in America, 
gourds, pumpkins, and marrows being the equivalent English 
name,” and the American use of the word is so confusing that it 
can only be defined as applying to those varieties of Cucurbita 
which are grown in gardens for table use, while the word pump- 
kin applies to those varieties grown in fields for stock purposes, 
and the word gourd to those ornamental forms with a woody rind 
and bitter flesh, or to the Lagenaria. 
This class of Cucurbits belongs to Cucurbita pepo, Cogn. in 
in DC. Monog, IL, p. 545. 
Other forms distinctively known at present as squashes are 
added in proper sequence. 
The form of Cucurbit now so generally known as Bush or 
Summer Squash is correctly figured in 1673 by Pancovius,* under 
the name of Melopepo clypeatus Tab. What may be the fruit 
was figured by Lobel® in 1591, and by Dodonzus” in 1616, 
and similar fruit with the vine and leaf by Dalechamp in 1587," 
Gerarde™ in 1597, Dodonzus in 1616, and by J. Bauhin ? in 
1651. By Ray“ in 1686 it is called in the vernacular “Zhe 
Buckler or Simnel-Gourd.” This word cymling or cymbling, in 
use at the present day in the Southern States for the Scalloped 
Bush Squash in particular, I find used in 1648 in *A Description 
of New Albion," but spelled Symnels. Jefferson ® wrote the 
word “cymling.” In 1675, Thomson, in a poem entitled New 
England's Crisis, uses the word “ cimnel, " and distinguishes from 
81 The Vegetable Garden. Vilmorie-Andrieus. Trans.by W. Robinson. London, 1885. 
8 Pancovius. Herbarium, 1673, No 
9? Dodon:eus, Pompi, stab, 667. 
His . d., 1587, I., 618. 
9 Gerarde. Herbal, 1597, 774. 
"E Bauhin. Hist., 1651, IIL., 224. 
Hist., 1686 
95 Jeiferson' s Noii on Virginia; 1803. 
