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The terms squash and pumpkin are much confused. In Europe, the large varieties of Curcubita maxima are known as pumpkins, but in this country the fruits of this species are known usually as squashes. In America, the words pumpkin and squash are used almost indiscriminately, some varieties in all species being known by those names. The field or common pie pumpkins are C. Pepo; so are vegetable marrows; also the summer squashes, as the Scallop, Pattypan and Crookneck varieties. The Hubbard, Marblehead, Sibley and Turban kinds are C. maxima. The Cushaws, Canada Crookneck, Japanese Crookneck, Dunkard, and Sweet Potato pumpkins (or squashes) are C. moschata. The fruit stem (as shown in Figs. 1133, 1136, 1141) is a distinguishing characteristic of the ripe fruite. C. Pepo and C. maxima, and C. maxima and C. moschata apparently do not intercross. C. Pepo and C. moschata have been crossed, but it is doubtful if they intermix when left to themselves. In Europe, the word gourd (or its equivalent in various languages) is used generically for cucurbitas; but in this country it is restricted mostly to the small, hard-ehelled forms of C. Pepo (var. ovifera) grown for ornament, and to Lagenaria vulgaris.
The terms squash and pumpkin are much confused. In Europe, the large varieties of Curcubita maxima are known as pumpkins, but in this country the fruits of this species are known usually as squashes. In America, the words pumpkin and squash are used almost indiscriminately, some varieties in all species being known by those names. The field or common pie pumpkins are C. Pepo; so are vegetable marrows; also the summer squashes, as the Scallop, Pattypan and Crookneck varieties. The Hubbard, Marblehead, Sibley and Turban kinds are C. maxima. The Cushaws, Canada Crookneck, Japanese Crookneck, Dunkard, and Sweet Potato pumpkins (or squashes) are C. moschata. The fruit stem (as shown in Figs. 1133, 1136, 1141) is a distinguishing characteristic of the ripe fruite. C. Pepo and C. maxima, and C. maxima and C. moschata apparently do not intercross. C. Pepo and C. moschata have been crossed, but it is doubtful if they intermix when left to themselves. In Europe, the word gourd (or its equivalent in various languages) is used generically for cucurbitas; but in this country it is restricted mostly to the small, hard-ehelled forms of C. Pepo (var. ovifera) grown for ornament, and to Lagenaria vulgaris.
C. Andreana, Naudin. Allied to C. moschata: sts. long and rooting at the nodes: lvs. large, marbled with white: fle. of the form of those of C. maxima but much smaller: fr. obovoid, 8 in. long, marked with white and yellow. Uruguay. R.H. 1896, pp. 542-3.— C. californica, Ton. Canes cent: lvs, thick, 2 in. across, 5-lobed. the lobes triangular and mucronate: tendrils parted to the base: fls. 1 in. or more long on pedicels ½-1in.long. Calif.; imperfectly known.—C. digitata, Gray. Perennial, the root fleshy: sts. slender and long, usually rooting: tendrils short and weak, 3-5-cleft: lvs. scabrous, 3-5-palmately narrow-lobed: fls. 2-3 in. long on slender pedicels 1-4 in. long: fr. subglobose, yellow, 2-4 in. diam. Calif, to New Mex.—C. palmata, Watg. Mock Orangr. Canescent: Lvs. cordate, thick. 2 nr 3 in. across, palmately 5-cleft to middle with narrow toothed lobes: fls. 3 in. long on stout peduncles: fr. globose, 3 in. diam. 8. Calif. L.H.B.
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