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" fertile, but the other barren, in fome. 

 «< But, when both are fertile, the female 

 «* carries the fairefl fruit, unlefs fuch be 

 •' called males, for fo fome call them." 

 And almoft all the plants which he di- 

 ftinguifhes into male and female, are e- 

 qually fertile in both fexes, as abics, filix, 

 cornusy tilia, cuprejfus, ciftus, conyza, &c. 

 Even palm-trees he divides into frudife- 

 . rous and barren ; and the frudiferous a- 

 gain into female and male * : So feems 

 not much to have regarded analogy, in 

 the diftinaion of fexes, except it be in 

 one fpecies of the palm-tree. 



3. But of this famous tree he fays t» 

 unlefs the fpatha be cut from the male, 

 and, while it retains the down, flowers, 

 and duft J, be fhaken over the fruit of 

 the female, it will never ripen, but fall 

 off; which this fprinkling prevents. 

 «* For the male, adds he, of both the fig- 

 VoL.I. G g •* tree 



• Hift. lib. 2, c. 8. 

 f Hill. lib. 2. C. 9. 



