738 The American Naturalist. [August, 
The “ Jurumu Lusitanus Bobora” of Marcgravius and Piso!3 
would seem to belong here, except for the leaves, but the figure 
is a poor one. 
These forms we have just mentioned have all that something 
in their common appearance that at once expresses a close re- 
lationship, and to the casual observer does not express differences. 
We now pass to some other forms also known as pumpkins, 
but to which the term squash is sometimes applied. 
The Nantucket Pumpkin occurs in various forms under this 
name, but the form I refer to, and of which I have examined 
specimens, belongs to Cucurbita pepo, Cogn. l.c. and is of an 
oblong form, swollen in the middle and indistinctly ribbed. It is 
covered more or less completely with warty protuberances, and is 
of a black green color when ripe, becoming mellowed toward 
orange in spots by keeping. It seems closely allied to the Courge 
Sucriere du Bresil of Vilmorin. It is not the Cuuerbita verrucosa 
of Dalechamp, 1587, nor of J. Bauhin; 1651, as in these figures 
the leaves are represented as entire, and the fruit as melon-formed 
and ribbed. 
In 1884 there appeared in our seedsmen’s catalogues, under the 
name of Tennessee Sweet Potato Pumpkin, a variety very dis- 
tinct, of medium size, pear-shape, little ribbed, of a creamy white 
striped with green color, and the stem swollen and fleshy. Of 
its history I have ascertained nothing, but it bears a quite strong 
likeness in shape to a tracing of a piece of “ pumpkin ” pottery 
exhumed from the Western mounds, and sent me by Lucien 
Carr, connected with the museum at Cambridge, Mass. In 
Lobel’s history, 1576, and in his plates, 1591, appear figures of a 
plant which in both leaf and fruit represents fairly well our 
variety; and these figures are of interest as being the only ones I 
have yet found in the ancient botanies which represents a fruit 
with a swollen herbaceous stem. I think I am justified in the 
following synonymy : 
Pepo oblongus vulgatissimus. Lob. Obs., 1576, 365. 
Pepo oblogus. Lobel, ic., 1 591, L, 641. 
Tennessee Sweet Potato Pumpkin. 
127 Piso, Hist. Nat. Bras., 1648, 44. 
P5 Piso. De Ind., 1658, 264. 
