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chromatin, 496n16

chromosomes, 496n16

cinnamon, true, 271, 284n20

Cistus incanus creticus,  149

classification system, Linnaeus’

as “natural,” 364– 366, 376nn36– 39 (see also

Linnaeus, Carolus)

Rousseau on, 370, 377n58

sexual system in, 366– 370, 367f,

377nn45, 51, 58

clay ball, Çatalhüyük, plant impressions in,

54, 55f

Cleland, John, Fanny Hill,  380

Codex Neopolitanus, 9th c., 261, 262f

Codex Vindobonensis, 253– 261, 255f– 260f

Cole, William, 376n37

Collins, Minta, 256, 260

colony collapse disorder, 419n40, 424

color

gender and, 4– 5, 164, 178n34, 180n54

sex- typing by, 5

Columella, 240– 241

Comparative Investigations on the Germination,

Development and Fruit Formation of the

Higher Cryptogams and Seed- formation

in Conifers (Hofmeister), 478, 480

Condorcet, Marquis de, 405

cones, conifer, Neo- Assyria, 121– 122, 121f,

123 f, 135n77

conspecific plant, 418

contraceptives, herbal, Upper Paleolithic

hunter- gatherers, 13

contractile root (C ro c u s) , Hades as,

162– 163, 162f

Cooke, Benjamin, 397

copulation

Aristotle on, 216, 217

Bacon on, 359

childbirth and, in Magdalenian, 25

Greeks on kinds of, in new animal

species, 300

in hermaphroditic snails, Swammerdam’s, 336

Magdalenian depictions of, 25– 26

stamen and pistil bending as, 359

Upper Paleolithic depictions of, 22– 24, 24f

corm, Crocus

C. cartwrightianus,  146

C. sativus,  158 f

Hades as contractile root of, 162– 163, 162f

in Persephone, 159– 160, 160f, 163– 164

propagation by, 160– 162, 161f, 162f

cormlet, Crocus, 160, 160f, 161, 161f

corn (Z e a m a ys). See maize (Zea mays)

Cosmographia (Silvestris), 291

cotyledon, 474n11

courtly love tradition, 288– 289

The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi,

106– 109, 133n55

Crete, 138– 139. See also Aegean lands

Bronze and Iron Age major events of, 175n1,

176nn2t– 3t

flora of, 145

Crete, Minoan palace at Knossos in, 139– 140

gender and sacred trees in, 140– 142,

141 f, 143f

Horns of Consecration in, 140, 140f, 175n10

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 435, 436

Critique of the Theory of Plant Sexuality

(Schelver), 454

crocus (C ro c u s)

C. cartwrightianus, 146– 148, 147f

C. sativus, 146– 148, 147f

Persephone and, 163– 164, 165f,

179– 180nn49, 54

in Saffron Crocus Gatherers fresco,

146– 148, 147f

Crocus cartwrightianus, 146– 150, 147f

Crocus Gatherers fresco, Xeste 3, 147f, 150,

151 f– 152f

crocus goddess, Persephone as, 159– 160, 161f

Crocus sativus

medical uses of, 154– 155, 154f

planting cycle of, 160– 162, 161f

saffron from, 146– 150, 147f, 149f

Cronos, 184

crop domestication and gender, 29– 68

by Çatalhüyük, 47– 64

animal- baiting scenes and lone woman of,

50– 53, 51f, 52f, 66– 67n49

carnivores as helpers in, small, 56,

67– 68n56

cats of, 55– 59, 57f, 58f, 68n57, 68n64

clay ball plant impressions of, 54, 55f

cryptic agricultural symbols at, 47– 48

“grain bin goddess” of, 59– 64, 60f– 63f,

68nn63– 64