PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. ait 
ought to appear, not in one or two in{tances 
(m), but in all, or the greateft part of the 
~ females, xiv yap guoiy tro upivoucy re yeruc, OF 
this tree more afterwards. 
4 Dioscoripdes, who lived under 
Nero, has a male and female mandragora, 
‘abrotanum, mercurialis, anagallis, arifiolochia, 
ciftis, filix, paonia, polygonum, tithymalus, 
verbafcum, and an arundo femina: but, without 
any regard to analogy or to their fertility or 
barrenefs, does he call them fo; for his mer- 
_ curialis-mas carries the feed, and the famina 
is barren ; and the male of all the reft, equal- 
ly fertile with the female, The fame may 
be faid of Galen and the fucceeding Greeks ; 
none of them, fo far as Ihave obferved, men- 
tioning the fexes of the palm-tree. 
‘5. Priny, who flourifhed under Ve/pa- 
e a fays indeed, ‘* Arboribus, imo potius 
_ * omnibus quae terra gignet, herbifque etiam, 
a “ utrumque fexum effe, diligentiffimi naturae 
‘tradunt: nullis tamen arboribus (palma) 
. “ manifeftius. Mas in palmite floret, fae- 
© mina citra florem germinat tantum, fpicae 
~€ modo.” (0) But when he comes to mention 
a 
particular 
“(n) As here in the fig-tree and palm-tree. 
~ (¢) Le 13. & 4. 
