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1010. Field Pumpkix. Here belong the plants commonly 

 known in North America as pumpkins, used for stock- 

 feeding and for the making of pumpkin pie. There are 

 several garden varieties, long-running coarse rough vines, 

 the fruits ripening in autumn. The vegetable marrow 

 is of this species. (Figs. 180, 188, 189.) 



Yar. condensa, Bailey, Cyclo. Amer. Hort. 409. 1900. 

 Bush Pumpkin. Summer Squash. Simlin (Cymliug). 

 Not running or tendril-bearing, compact; fruits very 

 various, ripening in summer and autumn. Here are 

 included the Scallop or Pattypan squashes, and the 

 common Summer Crookneck (Figs. 181, 182). 



Var. ovifera, Bailey, 1. e. (C. ovifera. Linn. Mant. i, 

 126. 1767.) Yellow-p LOWERED Gourds. Plants running, 

 slender, the leaves small and commonly deeply lobed : 

 fruits small, hard-shelled and keeping indefinitely, yel- 

 low or green or variously striped, apple-shaped, pear- 

 shaped, oblate, sometimes warty. An interesting group 

 of plants grown for the ornamental inedible fruits. 

 A. Plants softer to the feel, the foliage less rigid and not 

 so upright : leaves round or nearly so, not lobed, the 

 cordate base with a very deep sinus, margins uniformly 

 shallow-serrate with soft points to the serratures: flow- 

 ers with broader lobes which are usually reflexed or 

 revolute in full bloom, the corolla-tube with parallel sides 

 or even bulging toward the base ; calyx-lobes short and 

 narrow : peduncle short and nearly cylindrical, not en- 

 larging next the ovary and fruit, often developing its 

 largest diameter at the middle: C. maxima, Duchesne 

 in Lam. Encyc. ii, 151. 1786. Autumx and Winter 

 Squash. Here belong the Hubbard, Mammoth Chile, 

 Lowe, Essex Hybrid. Boston Marrow, Marl)lehead, Tur- 

 ban and similar varieties. They are autumn-ripening 

 fruits and keep well in winter. The flesh is firm and 

 mostly golden yellow or orange-yellow. Some of the 

 large or mammoth kinds are frequently called pump- 

 kins ; but they lack the light or bright yellow external 



