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to be fpurious ; and that Crateva lived 

 not before Mithridates, whom he com- 

 plimented with the name of a plant, as 

 Pliny * informs us. As for Hippocra- 

 tes himfelf, I find in him a conyza fceminai 

 but no other plant called either male or 

 female. 



i. BtJT Theophraftus, who fucceeded 

 Ariftotle in his fchool, in the 114. olym- 

 piad, very frequently mentions the fexes 

 of plants. Thiis ^a*/ k rmtt fays he, 



l(^t TtiV OfJLOIoyiVtCV, TO. flii etvQilV, TA OS iy *XC» ijUt 



** it is faid, that of plants of the fame 

 " kind, fortie flower, others not ; aS of 

 " the palm- trees j that the male bloflbms, 

 " not the female, which about the fame 

 ** time puts out the fruit. Plants there- 

 ** fore of the fame kind are thus differ- 

 ** enced, as alfo all fuch as cannot perfect 

 •* the fruit." f And elfewhere %, " The 

 '* moft common difiindion of trees, is in- 

 *' to female and male, whereof the one is 



" fertile, 



*X.Ib. 2J.C. 6. 



f Hrft. lib. I. C, 22. 



X HiA. Jib. 3. c. 9. 



