300 SEXUALITY OF VEGETABLES. CHAP. VI. 



plant containing the male flowers is cut off, and 

 shook over the flowers of the female plant, the fruit 

 does not fall, but is preserved till it is mature ; in 

 which case, he adds, there is a sort of coitus of the 

 male and female.* 



But beyond the example of the Date Palm and 

 such other plants as produce barren and fertile 

 flowers on distinct individuals, Theophrastus does 

 not seem to have entertained any correct notions of 

 vegetable sexuality. For although he institutes 

 the distinction of sex in other genera also, yet it is 

 by no means on the same principle, but rather upon 

 that of the habit or aspect of the plant, or upon 

 the quality of the timber when felled ; the male 

 being represented as shorter and stouter, and the 

 female as taller and more slender, as erroneously 

 exemplified in the case of the Pinus Larix^ which 

 is well known to produce no individuals that are 

 exclusively male or female ; ^ as well as in the case 

 of the Lime-tree, of which it is also added that 

 the male plant is not only barren, but destitute even 



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