334 CHAPTER 25. 
following generdy from other tribes, as reci- 
ted below''*'% contain fpecies to which Dios- 
c OR IDES has applied the diftindlion of male 
and female, from circumftances having no 
analogy with thofe of the Date-tree. 
This doctrine of the fexual analogy be- 
tween plants and animals, made but little 
progrefs with the literati in botany, upon 
the revival of fcience ; fince the firft of 
thofe w^ho mention it, is C^salpinus. 
This critical and learned author notices 
. male and female plants in the Oxycedrus, 
* Arundo Mandragora 
AnagalUs , P^onia 
Ariftolochia ^ Polygonum 
Cittus Tithymalus 
Filix Verbafcum, Sec, &c. 
To which have been added, by others. 
Abrotanum 
Nicotiana 
Abies 
Orchis 
Amaranth us 
Pulegium 
Balfamina 
Quercus 
Caltha 
Symphytum 
Cornus 
Tilia 
Crifta Galli 
Veronica, 
Ferula 
TaxuSf 
