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without the affiffance of the male, our very ingenious 
and worthy brother Mr. Miller aflures me, has been 
fully confirmed to him by leveral perfons : and John 
Bauhin*, an author of great credit, defcribes and 
figures the whole fructification of a palm-tree, which 
himfelf faw growing at Montpelier, and which not 
only produced branches of male flowers, but alio fe- 
male ones bearing dates. Mr. Ray many years af- 
ter tells us in his hiflory of plants §, that he himfeif 
at Montpelier faw this very remarkable tree men- 
tioned by John Bauhin. 
This variety in the fructification of the palm tree, 
Angular as it may feem, has been likewife obferved 
in l'ome few others. The learned Jungius, in his 
Doxoj'copia ||, mentioning that clafs of trees, which 
are male and female in different parts of the fame 
tree, fays, “ that trees of this kind, when they 
“ have for many years produced flowers without 
tc fruit, afterwards produce fruit without fknvers. 
u This, he thinks, . fhould be further inquired 
into.” This, fince Jungius’s time, has been done, 
and it has been found, that fometimes fome of 
the trees of this clafs are wholly male, while 
young ; but as they acivance in age, they have flow- 
ers of both fexes, and afterwards become intirely 
female. This fact Mr. Miller has frequently him- 
felf obferved in ihe mu berry- tree ; and the Chevalier 
Rathgeb, at prefent the emperor’s minifter at Ve- 
nice, 
* Hift. plant. tom. i. p. 351. 
§ Rail hift. plant, tom. ii. p. 1354. 
|| Cap. iv. p. 145. Uhi aliquot annos fores tulervnt fne fruflU) 
iiinde frufius ferre fine fore , quod amplius obfervandum. 
