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the pumpkin. Whence the origin of the word I find no clue, but 
it was very possibly of aboriginal origin, as its use has not been 
transferred to Europe. In England it is called Crown Gourd and 
Custard Marrow; in the United States generally the Scalloped 
Squash, from its shape; or locally, cymling or pattypan,—this latter 
name derived from the resemblance to a crimped pan used in the 
kitchen for baking cakes. It was first noticed in Europe, so far 
as I can ascertain, in the sixteenth century, and has the following 
synonymy : 
Cucurbita laciniata. Lugd., 1587, L, 618. 
Melopepo latior clypeiformis. Lob., ic., 1591, I., 642. 
Pepo maximum clypeatus. Ger., 1597, 774. 
Pepo latus. Dod., 1616, 666 
. Pepo latiorus fructus... Dod., 1616, 667. 
Cucurbita clypeiformis sive Siciliana melopepon latus a nonnullis 
vocata J. B., 1651, IL, 224. (First known to him in 1561.) 
Melopepo bfaddus. Pancov., 1653, n. 920. 
The Buckler or Sr Ray., Hist., 1686, L , 648. 
Summer Scalloped. 
This forms belongs to the Cucurbita melopepo, Lin. sp., ed. 2, 
.P- 1435, C. pepo, Cogn; l.c. 
The Bush Crookneck is also called a squash. Notwithstanding 
its peculiar shape and usually warted condition, it does not seem 
to have received much mention by the early colonists, and to 
have escaped the attention of the pre-Linnean botanists, who 
were so apt to figure new forms. The most we know is that 
Summer Crooknecks appeared in our garden catalogues in 1828, 
and it is perhaps referred to by Champlain in 1605. It is now rec- 
ommended in France rather as an ornamental plant than for 
kitchen use.” This form belongs to Cucurbita pepo Naudin, 
Ann. Sc. Nat., Ser. 4, V., 6, p. 29. 
The Winter Crookneck squash seems to have been first recorded 
= by Ray,? who received the seeds from Sir Hans Sloane and 
planted them in his garden, and this was the variety now known 
% Thorburn’s Cat. 
9% Vilmorin. Les. Pl. Pot., 1883, 184. 
98 Ray. Hist., 1686, I., 642. 
