234 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 

 ** tree and the palm-tree, is of ufe to the 



** female, *'^''' " /''--'' oioy iM^t?, « Ji kat aKKoyr^i-rov^ 

 *' but, in the one* there is, qiiafi coitus ; in 

 *' the other it happen? after a diiFerent 

 ** manner." And elfewhere " f That 

 ** the fruit will no': continue on the fe- 

 ** male palm tree, unle's the flower of the 

 *vtmale with the ''■?'''«r&* be fliaken over it, 

 "as fome affirm, is certainly fingular: 

 ** For though there is an evident reafon. 

 ^' for caprification, which it fomewhat 

 ♦* refembles ; yet none can be affigned 

 *■ for the effed of this fprinkhng." And, 

 left it fhould hence be inferred in geae-» 

 ral, that female trees were of themfelves 

 infufficient for fructification, without the 

 afHftunce of the males, he oblerves, that 

 in order to fuch a conclufion, this ought 

 to appear, not in one or two inftances |, 

 but m all, or the greateft part of the fe-r 



mriles, tW yip fflt/jrt'v tsTa Kf'iVOl/.iV 7^ yn^i. Of thlS 



tree more afterwards, 



4. DiQ« 



* viz. Palm-tree. 



f Cauf plar.t. lib. 3 c. 25. 



% As }iere ia the fig-tree and palm-tree^ '" 



