1219
The word gourd is also used in English for Cucurbita maxima. This is one of the examples of the confusion in common names and the greater accuracy of scientific terms.
1220
Naudin, Annales des Sc. Nat., 4th series, vol. xii. p. 91; Cogniaux, in our Monog. Phanérog., iii. p. 417.
1221
Linnæus, Species Plantarum, p. 1434, under Cucurbita.
1222
A. P. de Candolle, Flora Française (1805), vol. iii. p. 692.
1223
Rheede, Malabar, iii. pls. 1, 5; Royle, Ill. Himal., p. 218.
1224
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, vol. iii. p. 719.
1225
Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v. p. 397, t. 144.
1226
Piddington, Index, at the word Cucurbita lagenaria; Ad. Pictet, Origines Indo-Europ., edit. 3, vol. i. p. 386.
1227
Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 106.
1228
Bentham, Flora Australiensis, iii. p. 316.
1229
Described first under the name Lagenaria idolatrica. A. Richard, Tentamen Fl. Abyss., i. p. 293, and later, Naudin and Cogniaux, recognized its identity with L. vulgaris.
1230
Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. Amer., i. p. 543; Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 288.
1231
Bretschneider, letter of the 23rd of August, 1881.
1232
Tragus, Stirp., p. 285; Ruellius, De Natura Stirpium, p. 498; Naudin, ibid.
1233
Pliny, Hist. Plant., l. 19, c. 5.
1234
Ibn Alawâm, in E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, iii. p. 60; Ibn Baithar, Sondtheimer’s translation.
1235
Unger, Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, p. 59; Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 137.
1236
In 8vo, 1877, p. 17.
1237
Rauwolf, Fl. Orient., p. 125.
1238
Piso, Indiæ Utriusque., etc., edit. 1658, p. 264.
1239
Marcgraf, Hist. Nat. Brasiliæ, 1648, p. 44.
1240
Naudin, ibid.; Cogniaux, Flora Brasil., fasc. 78, p. 7; and de Candolle, Monogr. Phanér., iii. p. 418.
1241
Cl. Gay, Flora Chilena, ii. p. 403.
1242
Jos. Acosta, French trans., p. 167.
1243
Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 861.