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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 2242 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.

John Bostock translation

Fée observes that, properly speaking, there is no sex in the oak, the individuals being neither male nor female. The Flora Danica however, as he observes, gives the name of “Quercus fœmina” to the Quercus racemosa of Lamarck.

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