Pompkin
Description. The pompkin takes up a great compass of ground, with its large, thick, creeping stalks, furnished with large claspers: its leaves are very large and rough, in shape like those of melons. The flowers are large, in shape and colour like a yellow lily. The fruit is of a great bigness, having large, white, oval, flattish seed.
Place. The pompkin is sown in dunghills.
Time. It is ripe in September and October. It is rarely used in physic. Government and virtues. It is a moist plant under the dominion of the Moon. The seed is cooling, and of the nature of the melon and other cold seeds, and may serve very well to take emulsions.