¶ The Names.
The wilde Gourd is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Cucurbita syluestris, or wilde Gourd. Pliny, lib. 20. cap. 3. affirmeth, that the wilde Gourd is named of the Grecians, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which is hol∣low, an inch thicke, not growing but among stones, the iuyce whereof being taken is very good for the stomacke. But the wilde Gourd is not that which is so described; for it is aboue an inch thicke, neither is it hollow, but full of iuyce, and by reason of the extreme bitternesse offensiue to the stomacke.
Some also there be that take this for Coloquintida, but they are far deceiued; for Colocynthis is the wilde 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cucumber, whereof we haue treated in the chapter of 〈◊〉〈◊〉.