Sex of P/anfs. 335 
Taxusy Mercurialisy Urtka, and Cannabis-, 
of which he fays, the barren plants are 
males, and the fertile females 5 adding, that 
the latter, as is obferved in the Date-tree, 
becomes more fruitful by being planted 
near the males ; from thence receiving a 
genial effiuviumy which excites a ftronger 
fertility. From this obfervation, it may 
almoft be inferred, that he had inftituted 
experiments on fome of thefe kinds ; but 
we do not find that he carried the idea be-» 
yond the above-mentioned fpecies, to vege- 
tables in general. 
Adam Zaluziansky, a Tolijh writer in 
1592, is faid, by fome, to have diftin- 
guifhed the fexes of plants. I have not feen 
his book ; but, from what is found relating 
to his opinion in other writers, I conje6lure 
that his obfervations, if not wholly taken 
from C^sALPiNUs, do not exhibit any 
original matter on this fubjed:. In fa£t, 
no further progrefs was made for near an 
hundred years after this time ^ and the ho- 
nour of the difcovery, that this fexual pro- 
" cefs was univerfal in the vegetable king- 
*^ dom, and that the dull of the antherc^ 
**_was 
