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variously as “Turkish corn,” “Turkish wheat,” “Egyptian corn,” and “Syrian sorghum.” Fuchs’s
herbal presented the first European portrait of the complete maize plant. However, earlier illustra-
tions of maize cobs and tassels, painted between 1515 and 1517, can be found in the Villa Farnesina
in Rome. See Janick, J. (2012), Fruits and nuts of the Villa Farnesina. Arnoldia, 70:20– 27.- Guétrot, M. (1935), Histoire et critique de la découverte du prétendu sexe des plantes, in
Bulletin de la Société Botanique Du Centre- Ouest, Saint- Maixent L’École. Imprimerie Garnier
& Co., pp. 21– 90. - We are indebted to Professor Gildas Hamel at UC Santa Cruz for translating ch. XXIIII
of Zaluziansky’s Methodi Herbariae Libri Tres (1592). - Meyer, E. H. F. (1854– 57), Geschichte der Botanik (History of Botany). Gebrüder
Bornträger, Königsberg. - Ruel, De Natura Stirpium.
- Greene, E. L., trans. (1883), Landmarks of Botanical History, Part II. Stanford University
Press, p. 649. - Greene’s insight was first introduced in Chapter 1.
- Greene, Landmarks of Botanical History, p. 651.