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  1. According to Ann- Mari Jönsson, the two Swedes returned to Uppsala with a “rich collec-
    tion of dried plants, seeds and more than 200 sorts of herbs” from Siberia.

  2. Jönsson, The reception of Linnæus’s works in Germany.

  3. Linnaeus considered divine justice to be an integral part of the “oeconomy of nature,” and,
    starting in the early 1740s he collected historical, political, and personal anecdotes that demon-
    strated either God’s compensation for good deeds or His harsh punishment for bad deeds. These
    private notes in the form of maxims never meant for publication were intended solely as a moral
    guide for his son, Carl Linnaeus the Younger. They were eventually published posthumously as
    Nemesis Divina, and an English translation appeared in 1968.

  4. Jönsson, The reception of Linnæus’s works in Germany.

  5. Shteir, A. B. (1996). Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany
    in England, 1760– 1860. Johns Hopkins University Press.

  6. George, S.  (2007). Botany, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing (1760– 1830). Manchester
    University Press.

  7. Shteir, Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science.

  8. A cathedral close is a series of buildings associated with a cathedral, sometimes forming a
    square surrounding a courtyard, or close.

  9. Seward, A. (1804), Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin.

  10. King- Hele, D. (1977) Doctor of Revolution: The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Faber;
    George, S.  (2005). “Not strictly proper for a female pen”:  Eighteenth- century poetry and the
    sexuality of botany.” Comparative Critical Studies 2:191– 210.

  11. George, Botany, Sexuality, and Women’s Writing.

  12. What appears to be a red perianth is actually a collection of highly modified petaloid sta-
    mens. Only one of the petaloid stamens is fertile, and it faces a single petaloid style, which pos-
    sesses two stigmas, one at the apex and one on the side just below the apex. Before the flower bud
    opens, the anther transfers pollen to the laterally located stigma, a process known as “secondary
    pollen presentation.” The stamen then dies. Although there are two stigmas, pollen can grow to
    form a pollen tube only on the apical stigma. The lateral stigma functions solely to present pollen
    to visiting bees.

  13. Darwin explains his gothic account of Gloriosa in a footnote: “The petals of this beauti-
    ful flower with three of the stamens, which are first mature, stand up in apparent disorder; and
    the pistil bends at nearly right angle to insert its stigma amongst them. In a few days, as these
    decline, the other three stamens bend over and approach the pistil.”

  14. Browne, J. (1989), Botany for gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and “The Loves of the Plants.”
    Isis 80:592– 621.

  15. Schiebinger, L.  (1993), The private lives of plants, in L.  Schiebinger, ed., Nature’s
    Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. Beacon Press; Browne, Botany for gentlemen.

  16. Desfontaines (1787), Observations sur l’irritabilité des organs sexuels d’un grand nom-
    bre de plants. Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, 473. Cited by Delaporte, F. (1982), Nature’s
    Second Kingdom. MIT Press.

  17. Cooke, B. (1749), The mixture of the farina of apple- trees,— of the mayze or Indian Corn.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 46:205– 207.

  18. Darwin, E. (1803), Temple of Nature, 2, pp. 263– 270. J. Johnson.
    46. Ibid.

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