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contain feeds : And Tourneforc exprefsly 

 adds, " In horto regio femen proferf," 

 which Mr Wahlbom is pleafed to omit, 

 for what reafon I Ihall not fay , As for 

 the moras and blitum, I lee not why 

 their haccae fuccukntae may not be cal- 

 led yn/^wj alfo j efpecially fince Linnaeus^ 

 gives blitum a pericarpium \ and de- 

 fcribes a pericarpium to be " vifcus gra- 

 *' vidum feminibus, quae matura dimit- 

 *' tit" t : And confequently Walhboni 

 and he don't well agree. But, to return 

 to the palm-tree, 



35. '• Sexto, Palmicolas palmarum 

 " fpadices mafculos divellere, eofdem- 

 " que fupra foeminas collocare, memo- 

 " riae mandarunt Theophraftus, Plinius, 

 *' Alpinus, Tournefortius, Kaempferus, 

 ** alii: Quo negledo, dadyli acerbi, et 

 " nucibus deftituti, fiunt ;" Wahlbom J. 

 This is anfwered above (No. 31.). Then 

 the author gives a long paragraph out of 



Kaempfer 



• Gen. pi. p. 5. 



t Phil. Bot.p 53. 



X AmaeD, Acad. i.p. 94. 



