Index j 525525 525
pollen tubes and, 471– 472, 475n20
in pollination, angiosperm, 486, 486f, 487f
Schleiden on, 472– 473
in selfers, 36
in self- pollination, 447
Smellie on, 411
Swift on, 384
Withering on, 392
stigma- skirted priestess, of Ayia Triada,
165– 167, 166f
Strasburger, Eduard, 488– 489
Stretzer, Thomas, 380, 401n4
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
stroboli, 483
Sturm, Johann Christoph, 337– 338
Sud (goddess of clean, naked grains), 105
Sultanians
figurines of, 43f, 44
labor- intensive agricultural lifestyle of, 40
settlements of, 34– 35
Sumerians, 88
The Debate Between Grain and Sheep, 104
“ghost maiden,” 106, 133n53
Sumińsky, Jerome, 468– 469, 470f
Sunni Hadith, 279, 284n29
Sūra 53, 271– 272
Swammerdam, Jan, 339
Historia Insectorum Generalis, 332
Swedenborg, 376n36
Syballine books, 236
sycamore fig, tree goddess of, ancient Egypt, 115,
116 f– 118f
Sylva Sylvarum (Bacon, Francis), 300– 301
syngamy, 488
syphilis, 443, 460n47
Systema Naturae (Linnaeus), 365, 368– 369
Seigesbeck’s attacks on, 387– 391,
402n22, 403n28The System of Nature (Holbach),
432– 435, 458n9
table dancers of Phaistos, 155– 157, 156f, 179n39
tabula rasa, 381
taltallu, 110– 111
Tammuz (Dumuzi), 195taxonomy, 350
telescopes, invention of, 323, 345n3
“tell,” 47, 66n39
Tellus (goddess of earth), 232, 238– 240, 239f
Temple of Isin, 104, 133n45
The Temple of Nature (Darwin, Erasmus), 398
tepals, 346n17
terinnatu, 135n77
textiles, plant- based
in hunting nets, Upper Paleolithic, 21– 22
on Venus figurines, 20– 21, 21f
Thallo (one who flowers), 193
Theogony (Hesiod), 183– 185, 185f, 186f
Theophrastus, 174, 493
on artificial pollination in date palms, 223– 225
Characters, 204
De Causis Plantarum, 220– 223
on “degeneration” in fruit trees, 225– 226
Ethics, 204
on fruit shedding in figs, 223
Historia Plantarum, 220– 223, 252, 283n1, 308
on natural world as real and knowable, 214– 215
Theoria Generationis (Wolff ), 447
theory of uniform liquid essences,
416– 419, 417f
Theotokos, 281
Akathist hymns to Mary Theotokos, 282
Thera, 142, 175n12. See also Akrotiri (Thera)
volcanic eruption on, 139, 170
Thesmophoria, 187
Thornton, Bruce, 189
Timaeus (Plato), 291
“To a Lady with Some Painted Flowers”
(Laetitia), 408
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton, 351– 352, 356,
374– 375n3
Elements of Botany, 352
Institutiones rei Herberai, 352, 353
Tractatus de Herbis, 310 f, 309
Tragopogon, Linnaeus on hybrid of, 374, 414,
416, 418
transsexual attire, Grew’s, 330– 337, 334f– 335f,
346– 347n30
tree goddesses
of Eg ypt, ancient, 114– 120, 116f– 120f
pomegranate, 118– 120
Uruk, on cylinder seals, 111– 114, 112f,
113 f, 134n64