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But whether the tree, which I verily believe to be 
purely female, is really fo, or hermaphrodite, this I 
am fure of, at leaft, that the other is purely male ; 
and even in this cafe my obfervation is new. 
This obfervation was made on Saturday laft, May 
2 5, 1754- I have taken the firft opportunity of com* 
municating it, that, as the holly is now in flower, 
other botanifts of the Society may have an imme- 
diate opportunity either of confirming or contradict- 
ing what I have here related. 
addition to Dr. Martyn’j Paper tipon the 
Sex of the Holly. 
T H E Royal Society having done me the honour 
of referring the conlideration of the fex of the 
holly to me, in confequence of Dr. Martyn’s obfer- 
vations thereupon ; I accordingly firft examin’d, in 
company with that excellent botanift Mr. Miller, the 
holly -trees in the botanical garden at Chelfea. We 
there found, as Dr. Martyn had, that the flowers were 
of different fexes ; but not as thofe in the doctor’s gar- 
den, male and female upon different plants, but female 
and hermaphrodite upon different plants. I after- 
wards, both at Hampftead, and at the duke of Ar- 
gyll’s at Whitton, obferv’d feveral trees bearing male 
flowers, others female flowers. Hence it appears, that 
not only Dr. Martyn’s obfervation of the holly be- 
ing male and female indifferent trees is well founded, 
but alfo that it is male, female, and hermaphrodite, 
upon different trees : And I fhould not wonder, if 
upon a ftill farther examination, as in the mulberry, 
