POLYGAMIA. °t 



climates, as in England, and even in late seasQns in a 

 warm climate, the stamina prove ineffectual, and the 

 seed consequently unproductive. 



Of the cultivated fig there are thirty species or 

 varieties cultivated in France, Spain, and Italy. The 

 number of different species of Fig, of every kind, is 

 not well ascertained: Martyn makes fifty six. 



The singular character of the inflorescence of this 

 plant, the variety of the fructification in different spe- 

 cies, and the union of the animal kingdom in some 

 instances, as necessary to its reproduction, are pheno- 

 mena in the highest degree curious and interesting. 



