PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 287 



Archipelago, for which Tournefort is al-^ 

 ledged, I cannot find any fuch thing in 

 his works. Such a culture, indeed, is 

 mentioned by the editor of M. Geoffroy's 

 Materia Medica *, as pradlifed in Sicily : 

 But he neither fays he was in that ifland 

 himfelf, nor tells us who informed him. 

 However, if fuch is the culture of the 

 piftacia, either in Sicily or the Archipelago, 

 it feems to be very modern, and founded 

 on the imaginary impregnating virtue of 

 the duft of the apices , and no doubt, the 

 terebinthus will foon be treated the fame 

 way; it can do no harm ; though it is not 

 very probable, that, deficicnte tali Impreg^ 

 nationCifruBus abortiant in this tree, more 

 than in the palm-tree. 



37. Concerning caprification. if you 

 confult Theophraftus f, Pliny |. and 

 Tournefort §, or Pontedera ** only who 



quotes 



• Tom. 2, p. 417. 



f De rauf. pi. 1, 2. c. 12. 



t 1. IS'C. 19 



% Toy let 8.- 



*• Anthol. 1, 2. c. 33, 34. 35. 



