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plantarum (k) is not very intelligible to a be- 
ginner. But he calls the enlarged calyx, fru- 
dum: the cones he calls fructus; and fo 
they are in the moft proper: fenfe of the 
word. Linnaeus himfelf in his Fundamenta 
bot. teaches, that ‘‘ effentia fructus in femine 
“‘ confiftit’(/); and in his Philofophia Bota- 
nica (m), ‘* fructus ex femine five pericarpio, 
‘five non tectum fit, dignofcitur.” No 
matter therefore, whether ye call thefe cones 
calyces elongatos, or fructus, if they contain 
feeds: and Tournefort exprefsly adds, ‘* In 
‘‘horto regio femen profert;” which Mr 
Wablbom is pleafed to omit, for what reafon I 
fhall not fay. As for the morus and dlitum, 
I fee not why their baccae fucculentae may not 
be called frudfus alfo; efpecially fince Lin- 
nacus(n) gives bitum a pericarpium; and de- 
{cribes a periparpium to be ‘ vifcus gravidum 
‘«‘ feminibus, quae matura dimittit’(o): and 
confequently Wahlbom and he don’t well a- 
eree. But, to return to the palm-tree, 
| 35. SEXTO, 
(k) P. 477- 
(/) § 88. 
(m) P. 56. 
(1) Gen. pl. p. 5- 
(9) Phil. Bot. p. 53. 
