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Of Fruits. 
Part W 
long, flat, oval, and horned, as it were, with two knobs at 
the Bafe : being chewd, of a very bitter taft. 
The WARTED GOURD. Figur d, and in fomefort 
(a) Lib. 16. defcribed (a) mBauhinus. Probably, Lobeliuss Sicydpepoh 
c * Strumofus. This is above a foot and ? about, near ? a foot 
long, thickeft towards the top, and there a little deprefled 
as an Apple. Soft and brittle, and now juft of the colour 
of Buff-Leather. The Warts or Knobs all round about it, 
are neither blifters, nor folid, but emboffed parts of the 
Rind. 
Another of the fame Species, but lefler. 
The LONG WARTED GOURD. Not defcribed. 
Almoft two feet in compafs, and near a foot in length. 
In other refpects, altogether like the former. 
ANOTHER with fmall and few WARTS. About four 
inches long, towards the upper end, as much over. The 
colour, and fhape at the top, as of the reft. 
The BROAD TUBEROUS GOURD. Probably that 
(b) Lib. 16. defcribed and figur d in Bauh. (b) by the Name of Cu- 
curbita Clypeiformis f. Melopepon latm 3 at leaft of kin to it. 
Of a Buff colour, as the former 3 four inches long, four 
and \ broad 3 furrounded with undulated Knobs an inch 
or i s over, with furrows between each Knob and by the 
length 3 depreffed at the bottom 3 the top with a knob \ an 
inch over. 
The FLAT GOURD. Melopepo contprejfus alter, Lo- 
- belio. This came from Virginia, Tis three inches long, 
or from the Stalk to the top, and three and » inch broad 3 
at both ends, compreffed like a Bowl. Of a dusky yellow 
mixed with tawny. 
The Little, Round, Bitter GOURD. Figured in Ban- 
CO Lib* 1 tf. hinu* (c) under the Title of Cucurbit a amara, frutluparvo, 
€ ' '* globofo, colore varia. The Defcription lies in the Name. A 
fort of Colocynthis. 
The Yellow, Round, GOURD. In Bduh. trie Fruit and 
Plant together, entitulcl, Cucurbita afpera, minima, fphx- 
rica, crocea, variegata. With a conjecture of its being the 
fame with that which by Tabernamontanm is called Pepo In- 
dica minor. 
Not only the (hells of Calabajhes, but alfo the Rinds of 
Gourds, are ufed as Velfels for Gums, and other matters 
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