J4-0 CHAPTER 37. 
Vol. xxxi. p. 30. Dr. Blair thinks it 
probable that even the ancients were led, in 
many inftances, by the comparifon of the 
habit, to afcribe fimilar virtues to plants ; 
and, in others, by the conformity in the 
fenfible qualities of tafte and fmell. 
Obfervations on the Generation of Plants. 
ISI'* 369. Vol. xxxi. p. 216. An Experi- 
ment by Mr. Philip Miller, who, on fepa- 
rating the Male Spinach from the Female, 
found that the Seeds ripened ; but on being 
fown, did not vegetate. Inftances of Hybrid 
trodudtions among Savoy and other Cab- 
bage Plants. Obfervations on Variegations 
in Plants : on the Impregnation of Flowers, 
by the Bees and other Infefts carrying the 
Farina from Flower to Flower 
* Houston denominated 2Ln Jmerican plant, defcribed 
by Sloane as a Scorodonia^ after the name of Blair. 
This proving to be a fpecies of Verbena^ Linm^US, fen- 
iible of the praife due to Blair, transferred the appella- 
tion to a Teirandrous plant brought from the Cape of Good 
Hope^ nearly alii|||;in habit to the Heath ^Qn\iSj and called 
itBl^RIA. 
C-H A P. 
