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328 i Flora Unveiled diverse substance and unfit for the generation of seeds. Hence perhaps I apply the not unfitting derived na ...

The Two-Sex Model j 329 329 329 likened flowers to women. For example, Grew described the calyx, which he called “the empalement ...

330 i Flora Unveiled In this passage, Grew compares flowers to proper ladies, whose sepals act like a bod- ice, enabling them to ...

The Two-Sex Model j 331 331 331 Wherefore, if God clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the ov ...

332 i Flora Unveiled In this charming passage, Grew was merely echoing classical writers, but he ended his discussion with a tea ...

The Two-Sex Model j 333 333 333 John Ray, gave Grew sole credit for the discovery in his Historia Plantarum (1686). The con- ver ...

(a) Figure 12.3 Grew’s illustrations of “attires” (stamens). A. Seminiform; note the exaggerated thickness of the filaments. B.  ...

The Two-Sex Model j 335 335 335 Grew had zero experimental evidence to support his conjecture that flowers were her- maphroditic ...

336 i Flora Unveiled Grew realized that his theory was incomplete. In Swammerdam’s hermaphroditic snails, fertilization was brou ...

The Two-Sex Model j 337 337 337 the existence of species comprised of separate fruit- bearing and pollen- bearing individuals, s ...

338 i Flora Unveiled Collegium Curiosum sive Experimentale, a German scientific society, in 1672. Partly because Germany was not ...

The Two-Sex Model j 339 339 339 Nicolas Malebranche and the Dutch microscopist Jan Swammerdam. Malebranche had written in 1674 t ...

340 i Flora Unveiled incrementally after fertilization has taken place. Although Malpighi had made similar observations, Camerar ...

The Two-Sex Model j 341 341 341 long, at Camerarius’s own expense. As a private impression, the number of copies of the first an ...

342 i Flora Unveiled plants were filled with sterile seeds. But his happiness was cut short by the discovery that among the most ...

The Two-Sex Model j 343 343 343 Camerarius tested his pollen- catching hypothesis for the silk by removing it from two of the co ...

344 i Flora Unveiled In the vegetable kingdom, no production of seeds, the most perfect gift of nature, the general means for th ...

The Two-Sex Model j 345 345 345 The Stamina with Meal abound, And when the gentle Zephyrs blow, They from their Double Summits t ...

346 i Flora Unveiled History at Australian National University, and Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, for providi ...

The Two-Sex Model j 347 347 347 the sporophyte generation and is genetically distinct from the pollen grains, which belong to th ...