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of a i greenecolour with an harder barke, no wa nd then fofter and whiter. The meat within is like' 
the former . the feeds haue alfo the fame forme, but they be fomewhat iefler. 
■3. Ofthis kinde there is alfo another Pompion like vnto the former in rough (hikes and in 
gaflied and nicked leauesrthe floure is alfo great and yellow, like thofe of the others : the fruit is 
of a great bigneffe, whole barke is full Of little bunnies or hillie tvelts,as is the rindeofthe Citron 
which is in like manner yellow when it is ripe. ", 
4 The fourth Pompion doth very much differ from the others in form : the ftalks, Ieaues and 
fioures are like thofe of the reft .-but the fruit is not long or round, but altogether broad, and in a 
manner flat like vnto a fhield or buckler; thicker in the mi Idle, thinner in the compaffe, a’nd curled 
or bumped in certairie places about the edges, liket he rugged or vneuen barke of the Pomecitron- 
the which rinde is very foft,thin,and white : the meat within is meetely hard and dureable. The 
feed is greater than that of the common Cucumber, in forme and colour all one. 
% Macocks Virginian't , five Pepo Virginian ws. 
The Virginian Macocke,or Pompion. 
$ This hath rough cornered ftraked trailing branches proceeding from the roor,eight ornine foot 
long, or longer, and thofe againe diuided intoother branches of a blackifh greene colour , trailing 
fpreading,or running alongft the earth, couering a great deale of ground, fending forth broad cor- 
nered rough leaueSjOn great groffe, long, rough, hairy foot-fhlks, like and fully as big as the Ieaues 
of the common Pompion, with c lafping tendrels and great broad fhriueled yellow fioures alfo like 
thofe of the common Pompion : the fruit fucceedeth, growing alongft the (hikes, commonly not 
neere the root, but towards the vpper part or toppes of the branches, fomewhat round , not exten- 
ding in length, but flat likcabowle, but not fo bigge as an ordinarie bowle, beeing feldome 
foure inches broad, arid three inches long, of a blackifh greene colour when it is ripe. Thefub- 
ftance or eatableparris of a yellowifh white colour, containing in the middeft a great deale of 
pulpe or Toft matter, wherein the feed lyeth in certaine rowes alfo, like the common Pompion, but 
fmaller.The root is made of many whitiflr branches, creeping far abroad intheearth, and perifh 
at the firft approch of Winter. 
Hhhh * 
Mtltne*. 
