506 i Index
Douglas, Catherine, 386, 402n18
Drosera, Darwin on, 401
Dryas octopetala, 33, 65n10
Dryope (poplar tree), 193
Duchess of Queensberrty, 386, 402n18
du Hamel, Henri Louis, 358
Dumuzi, Inanna courtship of, 106– 109, 133n55
Dürer, Albrecht
botanical illustrations of, 307f– 308f,
311 f– 312f, 313
Holy Family with Three Hares, 311 f, 313
The Large Piece of Turf, 313 f, 313
Early Dynastic period, 88
egg cells, 468, 470f, 480
Eg yptian word pronunciation, 134n66
Ehrenberg, Margaret, 82
18th century botany. See also Linnaean era (18th
centur y); specific individuals and topics
1700– 1750, 379– 403 (see also Enlightenment
botany, 1700– 1750)
1750– 1800, 404– 429 (see also Enlightenment
botany, 1750– 1800)
einkorn wheat
domestication of, 38– 40, 38f– 39f,
40n23, 65n20
in Fertile Crescent, 36, 65n20
Elements of Botany (Tournefort), 352
Eleusinian Mysteries, 185– 189, 188f, 208n15, 230
embryo sac, 479, 486f, 494
emmer wheat
domestication of, 65n20
in Fertile Crescent, 36
Empedocles, 217
On Nature, 201– 202, 212– 213
enclosed gardens, Song of Songs and, 127– 130,
136nn83, 86, 137n91
endosperm, seed, 489
Enki (“Lord of the Earth”), 102– 104, 103f
Enlightenment botany, 1700– 1750, 379– 403
anthers and stigma as animals in, 397– 401,
399 f– 400f
British botanists in
Wakefield, 392
Withering , 391– 392
Crulls and Grub Street minions in, 380
Darwin’s “The Loves of Plants” in, 380,
394– 401, 403nn39– 40
Laetitia’s “To a Lady with Some Painted
Flowers” in, 408
La Mettrie’s L’Homme Plant in, 380– 384
Locke in, 401n7
mechanistic materialism and Descartes in,
380– 381
M i l ler’s Man- Plant in, 384
Per r y ’s Mimosa: or, The Sensitive Plant in,
385– 386, 398, 402n16
phytoerotica in, 380, 401n4
Rousseau and sensationism in,
406– 407, 427n11
satire, pornography, and plant sex in,
379, 401n2
Seward’s “The Backwardness of Spring
Accounted For” in, 393– 394
Siegesbeck’s attacks on sexual system and
theory in, 387– 391, 402nn22, 30,
403n28, 404– 405
Stretzer in
The Natural History of the Arbor Vitae, or
the Tree of Life, 380, 384– 385
The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria
or Flowering Shrub, 385, 402n15
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights
of Woman in, 408, 427n12
Enlightenment botany, 1750– 1800, 404– 429
asexualism ideology in, 405– 408
Koelreuter in, 413– 421, 427 (see also
Koelreuter, Joseph)
opponents of sexual theory in, 408– 413
Sprengel in, 421– 427 (see also Sprengel,
Christian Konrad)
environmental stress theory, 33– 35, 34f
epigenesis, 339– 340
Eretz, 290
Erinyes, 200
erotica, in Enlightenment, 380, 401n2
Ethics (Theophrastus), 204
Europe
agriculture spread in, via demic vs. cultural
diffusion, 71– 72
archaeological periods of, 11– 13, 12t
maize arrival in, 316, 320–321n57
Neolithic ( see Neolithic Europe)
Proto- Indo- European (PIE) language in, 70, 72
Upper Paleolithic ( see Upper Paleolithic,
Eu rope)