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388 i Flora Unveiled amicably with the younger Linnaeus and had given him encouragement. In 1732, Heister and his seventeen- yea ...

Behind the Green Door j 389 389 389 Would the Creator, Siegesbeck asked rhetorically, allow twenty or more men (stamens) to shar ...

390 i Flora Unveiled Stockholm, together with one of Linnaeus’s earliest pupils, Pehr Kalm, journeyed to Russia to collect plant ...

Behind the Green Door j 391 391 391 In spite of his victory, Linnaeus continued in such an extreme state of animosity that he wa ...

392 i Flora Unveiled thought proper to drop the sexual distinctions in the titles to the Classes and Orders.” So far as the uses ...

Behind the Green Door j 393 393 393 Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, and “The Loves of Plants” William Withering’s censorship of Lin ...

394 i Flora Unveiled The malevolent forces of anarchy and free love had even infected Mother Nature’s flower arrangements: “By t ...

Behind the Green Door j 395 395 395 damage his reputation as a physician, Darwin published the book anonymously. At the same tim ...

396 i Flora Unveiled Erasmus Darwin’s fertile imagination finds richer material to work with in the other Linnaean categories. F ...

Behind the Green Door j 397 397 397 Janet Browne has noted that, in the majority of cases, Darwin focused on the actions of the ...

398 i Flora Unveiled love and furnished with powers of reproducing their species.” As he wrote in his philosophi- cal poem The T ...

399 399 (a) Figure 14.1 A. Illustration of Vallisneria spiralis L. showing female flowers on long stalks and freely floating mal ...

(b) Figure 14.1 Continued ...

Behind the Green Door j 401 401 401 Continuing the feminine theme in botany, Darwin represents the insectivorous sundew plant (D ...

402 i Flora Unveiled See Introduction by Justin Lieber in de la Mettrie, Man a Machine and Man a Plant. de la Mettrie, Man a Ma ...

Behind the Green Door j 403 403 403 According to Ann- Mari Jönsson, the two Swedes returned to Uppsala with a “rich collec- tio ...

404 i And then that Spaniard of the rose, itself Hot- hooded and dark- blooded, rescued the rose From nature, each time he saw i ...

Wars of the Roses j 405 405 405 traditional symbol of virgin purity, was so thoroughly feminized in art, literature, religion, a ...

406 i Flora Unveiled If plants were associated with innocence and piety, a certain repugnance was felt toward animals and their ...

Wars of the Roses j 407 407 407 and pestilential vapors? By my word, it is not to such a place that Jean- Jacques will go lookin ...