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bout the fame time puts out the fruit. 
«s Plants therefore of the fame kind, are thus 
<¢ differenced, as alfo all fuch as cannot perfect 
the fruit.” (f) And elfewhere (g) ‘the 
“© moft common diftinétion of trees, is into 
female and male, whereof the one is fer- 
* tile, but the other barren, in fome. But, 
‘* when both are fertile, the female carries 
*s the faireft fruit, unlefs fuch be called males, 
-S* for fo fome call them.” And almoft all the 
plants which he diftinguifhes into male and 
female, are equally fertile in both fexes, as 
_abies, filix, cornus, tilia, cupreffus, ciftus, 
conyza, &c. Even palm-trees he divides in- 
to fruétiferous and barren; and the fructife- 
__rous again into female and male (4): fo feems 
"not much to have regarded analogy, in the 
diftinGtion of fexes, except it be i in one f{pecies 
of the palm-tree. 
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(f) Hitt. lib. 1. c. 22. 
{g) Hift. lib. 3. c. 9. 
(4) Hitt. lib. 2. c, 8. 
