Chap> 482. ‘Englijb Herbs > 699 
at £ an ^",^§ e > hollow and yellow, like unto 
a Bell Cup, divided in rlie brim into five parts or 
points Handing out like Teeth. At the bottom of 
whieh, ( js is in all the rdf) grows up the Fruit 
winch IS very great, thick, round, and lone, or of 
an Oval form, fometimes of the bigneis of an 
ordinary Mans Body, let round with bunched Ribs 
111 iome, and more plain and fiat in others. The 
1 , e IS eit / 1 . e L ot a g rc ‘ en > °r- grey, or yellow 
color or whitifh, or party colored , as Nature is 
plealed to Vary ir, and of a mean hardnefs. the 
harder pulp of the Fruit is yellowilh, or of a 
v.liinlh yellow, and of a flatucnt ralte: but the 
thinner pulp within that, lying in the middle, is of 
uMi.ny Fibrous, and Watery Subftance, in Which 
the Seed is conta ined, which is white, large, broad, 
fiat, thin, and almofl Oval, but fomewhat narrower 
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\. The Jccond , or Great round Melon or 
Pompion. This is like unto the former, in its Root , 
Si Ms, Branches, heaves, and Clafping Tendrels ; 
but the gaffes the Leaves are not Jo deep, and 
the Sulks are tenderer. The Flowers are in like 
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manner yellow, gaping, cornered or pointed at the 
top, as thofe of the former •, but the Fruit is fome* 
thing rounder, fometimes greater, and fometimes 
letter , and often times of a green color* with an 
harder Bark, and fometimes now and then 
fofter and whiter. The harder pulp within is 
like the other, and the Seeds have alfo the 
fame form, with very little difference in their 
magnitude. 
VI. The third, or Great flat bottomed Melon or 
Pompion. T his differs not much from the other 
ttvo in its Root , rough Stalks , or Branches , and in 
its gafhed or dented Leaves. The Flower is alfo 
great and yellow, like thofe of the others: but 
the Fruit (which is of a great bignefsj is com- 
pre ffed or fiat bottom’d, and its Rinde is full of 
little hilly Whelks, nor much unlike to rhofe of 
the Citron Rinde or Peel, which when it is ripe is 
in like manner, yellow. ^ * 
VII. The fourth, or Great Buckler-like Melon 
or Pompion. This very much differs from the 
others ,n form: the Roots, Stalks, Leaves, and 
flower,, are much like the others ; bur the Fruit is 
not long nor globular, but altogether broad, and in 
a manner flat, like unto a Shield or Buckler, thick- 
er in the middle, but thinner in the circumference 
and curled, hilled, or bumped, up and down about 
the edges, like the rugged or uneven Peel of the 
utron : and this Rinde is very foft, thin and white. 
Ihe lohder pulp within, is hard and durable, and 
the Seed inform, color, and ralte, like the former 
K-inds, but fomewhat left. 
vm. The fifth % or Smaller or Virginian Melon 
or Pompion. Its Root confifls of many whitifh 
Branches, creeping far abroad in the Earth which 
penjh at the firfi approach of Winter. From 
whence fpring up rough cornered or flraked 
Branches, trailing upon the Ground , 8 or o feet 
long or longer, which fpread themfelves and run 
upon the furface of the Earth, and are again di- 
vided into other Branches of a blackilh green color 
covering and taking up a great deal of room, fend- 
ing forth broad, cornered rough Leaves, on great 
grois, long, rough, hairy foot Stalks; like and full 
as large as the Leaves of the fuff or common Melon 
or Pompion-, with clafping tendrels, and great 
broad, fhriveled, yellow Flowers, like to thofe of 
the common Pompion. After them comes the Fruit 
upon the Stalks, not commonly fo near the Root’ 
but towards the tops or ends of the Branches; fome- 
thing round, and not extending in length, but flat 
like a Bowie, and not fo big as an ordinary Bowie 
being feldom above 3 Inches in thicknefs or length’ 
and 4 Inches in breadth; of a blackilh green color 
when it is ripe. The eatable pulp is of a whitifh 
yellow color, containing within that, a great deal 
°f a thinner, foft, flimy, fibrous Subltance , in 
which the Seed lyes in certain rows, like that 
of the firft or common Pompion, but much 
lmaller. 
IX. The places. Thefe are all planted in Gar - 
dint in England, and other Countries, anddelieht 
in a rich and fruitful Soil, and even in ourCountry 
they come to great perfection. 
X. The Tunes. They are planted in the lat- 
ter end of March , or the beginning of April- 
Flower in the latter ehd of July, and Auguft 
and their Fruit is ripe in September and Offol 
ber. 
,^I- . T, ’ e . Qualities. The Fruit (which is that 
which is chiefly made ufe of; is cold and moift in 
the fecond Degree ; Abflerfive, Anodyn, Diuretick 
Lenitive, Nephritick, ind Lithontriptick. 
XII. The Preparations. You may have here- 
from. i- A Liquid Juice of the Fruit. 2 The 
Pulp of the Fruit. 3. An Emulfton of the Seed 
4. A Lataplafm of the Pulp. A Di/liUed Water 
of the Fruit. 
TIjc Virtues, 
XIII. The Liquid Juice. Given from a Spoon- 
fu .I /° tw °, “the muted Water, and fweetned 
with Syrup of Clove-Gil/iflowers, it quenches Thirlt. 
abates the violent heat of Burning revets allays 
the heat and inflamation of the Stomach and other 
Uuuu * Bowels. 
