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SECT. 11. CHAP. XVIIL 



Of the citrul calabajh, or citrul cucum- 

 bers. 



HE calabafh, or citral cucumber, n^mts 



is the next I fhall treat of 5 it is <^^i 

 caird citrul, from CitrulhiSy or ratlier, 

 CitroleuSy quod citrei malt quoad formam 

 & coloremjit amuky fay the botanical 

 etymologifts. 



Our herbals have left but one kind, 

 that I have feen, which is the citrullus 

 five anguria vtdgatiory the common ci- 

 trul cucumber j but the T>utch (from 

 whom we receive many things of this 

 kind, which they have from their colo- 

 nies abroad) have fent us over many 

 more kinds> which differ in lize and 

 fliape, fome being perfectly round, o- 

 thers ovular or long 5 fome pear-fafhion'd, 

 and others as it were fqueez d flat at the 

 head, under the general name of cala- 

 bafli 5 of all which we have feveral kinds 

 from our own plantations in the TVeJl 

 Indies, which it would be needlefs for 

 me to enlarge upon. 



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