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NOTES. 



For full titles of works mentioned below, and for a fuller reference to 

 the researches and publications of the various authors, see the list of Lit- 

 erature above. 



1. As the flowers of the fig species are generally and well known to 

 botanists, I have considered best to hold my description of the fig flowers 

 in a more popular form, so as to be more easily iinderstood by non-bota- 

 nists. 



20. Pontedera, p. 175. This female tree he calls Erinosyc.e. Gallesio 

 also mentions such tree under the name of Fico Sevii-mula, but it is un- 

 certain if he himself has seen it. A somewhat similar form of the caprifig 

 is described by Solms-Laubach, p. 35, as having grown wild in a garden 

 at Chiaja, near Naples. As all, or at least nearly all other fig species which 

 have been particularly described possess such an exclusively female form, 

 it is more than likely that Pontedera's description is correct. Miiller and 

 Solms-Laubach assume that the edible fig is the female tree and the caprifig 

 the male tree, which I can only understand to mean that the edible fig is 

 descended from the female tree. 



21. Gallesio, p. 46. Solms-Laubach doubts the correctness of these 

 descriptions and calls them most artificial, p. 33. But after his discovery 

 of purely female trees of the Java fig varieties, he may have somewhat 

 modified his opinion. 



23. According to Solms-Laubach, there is absolutely no foundation for 

 this description, p. 33. 



24. This cai^rifig tree grows in Shinn's orchard at Niles; was imported 



