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livestock animals, in Neolithic Europe, early,
69, 83n8
Locke, John, 381, 401n7
Loder, Justus Christian, 442
Lotis (water nymph), 193
“The Loves of Plants” (Darwin, Erasmus), 380,
394– 401, 403nn39– 40
Luwian language, 230, 248n2
The Machine Man (La Mettrie), 381Maenads, 199
Magdalenian transition, in Upper Paleolithic
Europe iconography, 25– 26
Magna Mater (“womb of the gods”), 236
Magnus, Albertus, 307– 310
De Vegetabilibus, 308
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, 300
maize (Zea mays)
bicolored, 359– 360, 376n24
Camerarius’ experiments with, 342– 343
Central Europe arrival of, 316, 320–321n57
hybrid vigor in, 428n30
Malebranche, Nicolas, 339
Malpighi, Marcello, 323– 324
Anatome Plantarum Idea, 324, 325– 327
floral menstruation theory of, 324– 328,
326 f, 329f
floral menstruation theory of, Marchant
on, 351
on fungi, 346n12
Mammalia, 378n68
Manat, 271– 272
mandrake (Mandragora officinarum),
127, 136n83
The Man- Plant: or, a Scheme for Increasing
and Improving the British Breed
(Miller), 384
Marchant, Jean, 351– 352
“The Marienbad Elegy” (Goethe), 451
Marinatos, Nanno, 143, 172
Marinatos, Spyridon, 146
Mars, 230, 235– 236
Marselia, 482– 483
Mary, Virgin. See also Christianity
Berceo’s “Milagros de Nuestra Señora,”
282– 283
date palm and, 274– 278, 275f– 276f, 278f
flowers and, 286lily and rose and, 286
as nature/ agricultural goddess, 281– 283
rose as symbol of, 301– 303, 302f– 306f, 320n41
Mason, Stephen, 211
Mather, Cotton, 359– 360, 376n24
Maxims and Reflections (Goethe), 449
mechanistic materialism, 18th c., 380
medical schools, 12th c. Salerno, 307
Meditationes de Vita Christi, 311
Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes),
380– 381
medulla– cortex theory, 372– 373,
377– 378nn66– 67
megasporangium, 483, 485, 486f
megaspore mother cells, 488
megaspores, 483, 485
meiosis, 485f
Mendel, Gregor, 489, 492– 493
Mendel’s laws, 492
menstruation theory, Malpighi’s floral,
324– 328, 326f, 329f
Marchant on, 351
Mercurialis annuis, Camerarius’ experiments
with, 341
Mesopotamia, 86
date palm trees in, 92– 103, 182 (see also date
palm trees)
marriage rituals, sacred, 185
metamorphosis, 191
Metamorphosis (Ovid), 203
metamorphosis, Goethe on, 440
old age and, 449– 452
plant sexuality and, 445– 448,
460– 461nn53– 54, 56
The Metamorphosis of Plants (Goethe), 430, 431,
445– 448
Metamorphosis Plantarum (Linnaeus), 372, 446
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 212, 291
Meter (Cybele), 186– 187, 236, 237f
Meter Thea (“Mother Goddess”), 236
Methodi Herbariae Libri Tres (Z a luzia nsk y),
316– 317
microliths, 29
microscopes
compound, inventor of, 345n3
Galileo’s, 323, 345n3
plant observations with, early, 323– 324
microsporangium, 483, 485f