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little Knob? at the Joints and Tops of their Boughs; 
which at finr are not very unlike the young green Ber- 
I1C j V° Ut t ^, e ^ ^ oon a PP ear evidently diftindt from them, 
and being by the latter End of July , grown as large 
as the Bernes, are then not at all like them ; fpreading 
wider upwards, and having 3, or 4, or 5 Buds , at the 
l op of each Knob. About June, the Female Plant 
alio makes a ike Preparation ; putting out at the Joints 
ari -i n,° pS ° i t,le ^ 0U S^ S -- Knobs, which are more (harp, 
and (horter thin thofe of the Male; with 1, or 2, but 
mod commonly with 3 Buds, or final! Points at the 
1 op of each Knob. I call them Buds, becaufe in their 
bea(on they open into Flowers, both in the Male and 
femaie Plants; a 1 the reft of the Knob ferving only 
foriootftalks to the Flowers, in the one Sort, and to 
botn Flower and l run in the other. By the latter End 
ot Augujt the Berries are grown much larger than the 
Knobs on the Male Plants. And from thence, till late 
in January, there is little worth Remark in either 
1 l int ; only the Berry grows fomewhat bigger, and be- 
comes ripe; and the Knobs on the Male grow more 
an- more yellow ; fo that one may, at that Time, dif- 
Diftf M R e t r ° m a , F ? male Planr ’ at a confiderable 
DifJ a nc c Ly the 20th of February Miileto is in Bloom 
both Male and Female. The Knobf of the Mde are op™n 
at the Top with 3, or 4 , or s BloiToms ; which are 
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The Female Plant flowereth alfo now, with a Blof- 
S' p n M W | hlC ri Boerhave calls f be Ovarium) exadly like 
the Male Flower ; fave only, that the whole Female 
Hower is^ not bigger than one Leaf of the Male 
Flower. 
