736 The American Naturalist. [August, 
gourds, as quoted in our notes on the squash. Kalm,™ about the 
middle of the eighteenth century, traveling in New Jersey, 
names “squashes of the Indians,” which are a summer fruit, 
“gourds,” meaning the winter crookneck, and “ melons,” 
- which we may conclude are pumpkins; Jonathan Carver ™ in 
1776 of the melon or pumpkin, called by some squashes, and 
says the smaller sorts are for summer use, the crane-neck for 
winter use, and names the large oblong, and in 1822 Woods ™ 
speaks of pompons, or pumpions, in Illinois, as often weighing 
from 40 to 60 lbs. 
The common field pumpkin of America is in New England 
carried back traditionally to the early settlement, and occurs 
under several forms, which have received names which are usually 
quite local. Such form-varieties may be tabulated alphabetically, 
as below as taken from Burr : 
Canada. Form oblate. 14 in. diam., 10 in. deep. Deep 
orange yellow. 
Cheese. Flattened. 16 in. diam., ro in. deep. Deep reddish. 
orange. 
Common Yellow. Rounded. 12 in. diam, 14 in. deep. 
Clear orange yellow. 
Long Yellow. Oval. Io in. diam, 20 in. deep. Bright 
orange yellow. 
Nantucket. Various. 18 in. diam., 10 in. deep. Deep green. 
The Canada Pumpkin is of an oblate form inclining to conic, 
and is deeply and regularly ribbed, and when well grown of com- 
paratively large size. It is somewhat variable in size and shape, 
however, as usually seen. We think we are justified in the fol- 
lowing synonymy : 
Cucurbite indiane and peregrine. Pin., 1561, 191. 
Cucurbita indica, rotunda. Lugd., 1587, L, 616. 
Pepo rotundus compressus melonis effigie. Lob. Obs., 1576, 
308; ic., 1591, L, 642. 
(?) Pepo indicum minor rotundum. Ger., 1597, 774. 
14 Kalm. Trav., om -a 347. 
125 Carver, Trav., 
126 Woods. Tue Cin. 122. 
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