77 o Chap.21, 
Tkeatmn Botanicum 
Tribe 6 , 
6 . Cucurbit* hyemales. Warner Gourds or Millions. 
Thefe Gourds differ little in forme of growing from the other forts before mentioned hut in the matnritie an j 
durability of their fruite : for there ate of them that are greater then others, and of different colours, as f ome 
yellow others greene or of other colours: but all ofthem doe ripen later.and doe better endure the firft approach 
of Winter then the others.for they are not full ripe and fit to be eaten before they are hung up in a Chamber after 
they be gathered. 
7. Cucurbit* Indict rotunds & diverJiformes. 
Round Indian Gourds, or Millions,or Pom pions.and of other formes. 
There is very great variede of thefe Gourds (or Millions as fome call them, or Pompions, as I may call fome 
of them) that come out of America or the Vied-ladies, from fundry places, both farther South among the Spani/b 
Colonies,and nearer hand in our owne of Virginia, Nexr-Lngland,&c. Some whereof in their forme are as round 
as long, fome longer like a Peare, fome more long then round, and fomeflatatthebottome : fome alfoas great 
as our Pompions, fome as fmall as an Apple, and fome of divers other fifes, meaner or greater or leffer, iom e 
with much moyfture or waterthatis very fweeteand pleafant in them, and fome having little or no mcate, or 
moyfture: fome againe dilcoloured on the outfide, greene, with whitifh or yellowifh (tripes in them,or fpotted 
ib finely that they give great delight to behold them, fomealfo reddifh fpotted or taped, and fome ofadeepe’ 
yellow colour, the (eedes in th.felikewife are variable in divers, fome more like unto the ordinary Gourd feed, 
but blacker or browner, or red, in others white, either like the long Gourd, or like to our Pompions, yet few 
Co large as our Pompion, and others as lmall almoft as the Cowcumber feed e, fothatto give you an ample de¬ 
claration ofevery one of them were a worke of curiolitie, and of more travell then profit, and therefore 1 mud 
leave it for them that can intend it,and will gather them all together and publifh filch a pecce, I mult convert my 
pen to other parts which I hope fir'll proove more beneficiall to the Commonwealth. 
Divers other forts of Gourds or Millions, or Pompions, or whatfoever elie you pleafe to call them, are grow- 
ing and have beetle brought us from fundry places, both Syria and the Eaff Indies differing from many here ex- 
preffed, fome being as red as blood both within and without, and much pleafanter in eating then in any of thefe 
Countries, whereof to write more largely were almofl fuperfluous, the diverfitie being fo great that we yeare- 
Iy almofl fee fome fort not before feer.e of us,and therefore who fo will may quote thole they like in the margent 
or end hereof. The Place. 
All thefe Gourds arc Grangers and brought fromfeverall places ,fome out of the Levant ,as rAEgypt, Syria, ctre. 
others as I faid before out of America,both further off and neater to us, as in Virginia,&c. 
The Time. 
They are all to be planted of the feede in the Spring, and in very good ground that muff not wantplcnty of 
moyfture.orelfe the heateof our owne Country will not ferve to ripen them. 
The Names. 
The Gourde is called in Grecke Motors* or xoaoitwS* Colocyntha ednlis, to fliew the difference from the 
other iwDjcmSjf or ■/s.i.oyj..Z'a. ddyot ezdiaioad Are or <nyVa the wilde or bitter Gourde called CoIocjnthU or Colo- 
tyncorida before fpoken of: in I.atinc Cucurbita aconcnrvatu (as it is thought) eyaodfaciU ficytsid obfleterit cyuo mi. 
mu extendatur incurvefcat : the Antients as I fayd in the beginning have becne very variable in their denomina¬ 
tions of Gourdes,Cowcumbcrs,&c. for they have by the word eirAo. which ia Ci unis, called divers other forts 
of thefe fruits. Athenam fetteth it downe in his fecond bocke that Euthydamus called the Gourde Cucumis Indi. 
cas, becaufeashe there faith, the feede was firft brought out of India, and that CMemdorw made the Gourd 
to be of two forts, the one of India called rati* cxr*nw,the other called m8xiu/S» colocyntha, Pliny alfoinhisi9. 
Booke and fift Chapter roaketh the Pepo or Pompion, a kinde of Cowcumber, faying Cucumeres cum 
magnitudine exceffereTcpones vocari, bur Galen faith lib, 2. alimcntornm that mmiv (which fignifieth Tovirauvor 
ripe.andmay be appropriate to all fruits) is yet given to one peculiar,but then it is called dnwov 01,7701, pepo cucnmc- 
ralis, but hereof 1 fhall fpcake a little more in the next Chapter. Pliny bath two forts of Gourds, theone hee 
calleth Cucurbita Qtmeraria, becaufe it was planted or placed neare unto Chambers and windowes to be a fhade 
and coole refrefhing from the heate,which by diming up and leading it which way they pleafed it did perforate, 
for as he faith it is fublimitatii az Ida : rise other he called Cucurbita plcbeia, which lay upon the ground and cli- 
rned not, which I doubt whether it be any of thofe forts here fpoken of, for all of them except the ClypeiformU 
will clime if they have any high thing (land neare them whereon they may rife. The Arabians call them Hara, 
Charha and Harakarha, the Italians Zucea : the Spaniards Calabaffa , the French Course and Qoucowde, the Ger¬ 
man; Kurl’ff, the Dutch CauwenUrcn, and wee in Sngli/b Gourds. The two firff are called by Label and Lugdu- 
nenjis. Cucurbit a lagenaria mayor (y- minor, and Cameraria mayor cp‘ minor : the third is called Cucurbita oblonga by 
almoll ail Authors except Dodonatts, Lobel and Gerard, who call it Cucurbita auguina ; the fourth isjcallcd Cucur- 
bita flellata (jr feJJ} Ih by Career amts and Gefner in hortis: by Tabermontanus Cucurbita capitate, by Gerard Cucur¬ 
bita fylzefirisfurtgformie,Pepo bid,cut fungiformU, and Pepo maximal clypeatw, for all thefe his three figures ex- 
prefle but this one iort of Gourd, and by Dodonaus Pepolatus : the lift is called Cucurbita Indira by Matthiolus, 
rotunda of Cefalpueju and Lugdunenfts, and Indica major ox minor of Tabormontanw : Zuccha mayor rotunda of 
Cordtei and Citrulhes maior and Pepo maiorfyheflris of Gerard, which although he expreffe thele as he did the for¬ 
mer for fundry plants yet they arc not fo : of this kinde iMatthialm and others have made mention of much va- 
rictie which they faw in their time, and wee Ithinke in ours many more as I have declared before : the fixtis 
mentioned by Lugdnnen/is onely by the name of Cucurbita verrucofa : the lad fome call Cucumeres hyemalet, hue 
I had rather call it Cucurbitahyema/is partly for the reafons before let downe, but chiefely for the leeds fake 
which is more like a Gourd then a Cowcumber. What I faid before concerning the variablencffe of the ancient 
Authors in thefe things, I may as wellfay ofourmoderne writers in confounding Pepo, Uelopepo and Cucurbita 
fopromifcuoufiy.thatitisnotpofiiblctofindeourthcdiftimacertainticof them all, for fome make that to bee 
Pepo that others call UHelopepe and others Cucurbita, And Tauhinmyiho taketh upon him to refine all other 
mens writings and dillinguifh of them,in making Pepo,Melopepo,mA Cucurbita feverall kinds of plants, doth fo 
huddle and confound them together, as any that will reade him advifedly and compare him may foone fee that he 
giveth feverall names to one and the fame plant in divers places; which errour and the prolixitie about them 
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