Index j 501501 501
in Neo- Assyria, 121– 122, 121f, 123f, 124f,
135– 136n79
Theophrastus on, 223– 225
asexualism
18th c. ideology of, 405– 408
19th c. revival of, 452– 455
Hegel on, 454– 455
Henschell on, 455
ideology of, 405– 408
Koelreuter on, 430
Schleiden’s, 469f, 470– 473
Schleiden’s, von Sachs on, 458n8
vs. sexualists, 493– 494
Asherah (“Queen of Heaven”), 125– 126, 136n81
Ashurnasirpal II’s palace, 120– 122, 120f
assortment, 496n24
independent, 492, 496n24
Assyria, 120
asuhu tree seed, 135n77
attire, transsexual, Grew’s, 330– 337, 334f– 335f,
346– 347n30
Augspach, Elisabeth, 281
Augustine, St., Bishop of Hippo, 247
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(Wollstonecraft), 408, 427n12
Ayia Triada, stigma- skirted priestess of,
165– 167, 166f
Azarvan, 126Babylonia, 94
Bacchus (god of wine and ecstasy), 197– 199,
198 f, 199f
“The Backwardness of Spring Accounted For”
(Seward), 393– 394
Bacon, Francis, 359
Novum Organum Scientarum, 322, 345n1
Sylva Sylvarum, 300– 301, 320n35
Bacon, Roger, 307– 309, 320n35
De Plantis, 307–308
baloma, 15
barley
domestication of, 65nn20, 23
domestication of, with tough rachises, 65n23
in Fertile Crescent, 36
basileus (basileis), 182– 183
Batsch, August Johann, Botany for Women and
Lovers of Plants, 444
Bau (Baba), 105Bauer, Ferdinand Lucas, 475n20
Bauhin, Caspar, 365
Pinax Theatri Botanica, 365, 376n39
bee bread, 224, 363
bee pollination, 363
Koelreuter’s work on, 420
beliefs. See also specific topics
culture and perception on, 4
entrenched, 3– 4
Berceo’s “Milagros de Nuestra Señora,” 282– 283
Bernard of Chartres, 318n12
Bernard Silvestris, 318n12
Bible, Hebrew, plant sex in, 210, 219– 220, 226n1
Bildungstrieb, 4 47
binomial nomenclature, 365
biomass, photosynthetic eukaryotes in, 131n15
The Birds (Aristophanes), 210– 211
black bee, Indian Vedic Hymn, 320n44
Blair, Patrick, Botanick Essays, 344– 345,
346– 347n64, 361– 362
“Blessed Longing” (Goethe), 450
bloodletting, 346n9
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 443
boar- baiting animals, of Çatalhüyük, 53,
66– 67n49
Boccone, Paolo, 337
The Botanical Arrangement of All the Vegetables
Naturally Growing in Great Britain
(Withering), 391– 392
Botanick Essays (Blair), 344– 345, 346– 347n64,
361– 362
Botanicum Parisiense (Vaillant), 353,
366, 377n45
Botany for Women and Lovers of Plants
(Batsch), 444
Botswana, prepubertal sexual activity in, 15
Botticelli, Sandra, Primavera, 305, 306f
bowl of Phaistos, Minoan Persephone in,
157– 159, 159f, 161f, 179n40
Boyle, Robert, 337– 338
on Cannabis, 342
Bradley, Richard, 362– 363
New Improvements in Planting and
Gardening: Both Philosophical and
Practical, 361– 362
breastfeeding, in population control, 13– 15
Trobriand Islanders on sex and, Malinowski
on, 15– 16