Botany for Gentlemen: Erasmus Darwin and "The Loves of the Plants"

MARRIAGES OF PLANTS. Florejtence. PUBLIC MJ4RRMGES, Flowers vifble to every one. IN ONE BED. Hufband and wife have the fame bed. .411 the flowers hermaphrodite: /jlaens andpi/lils in thefamtflower, 1 WITHOUT AFFINITY. Hufbands not related to each other. Statens notjoined together in aajy part. WITH EqUALITrY. All the males of equal rank. Stamens have no determitnate proportion of length. 2. ONE MALES. SEVIGN MALES. 2. TWO MALES. 8. EIGHT MALES. 3. THREE MALES. 9. NINE M'ALES. 4 FOUR MALES. lo. TEN MALES. 5. FIVE MALES. I:ITWELVE MALES. I 6. SIX MALES. 12.T WENTN'YMALES I ~~ I I I 11~3. MANY' MALES. |V VITH SUBORDINATION. Some males above others. Twojiamens are always lower than the others. 14. TWO POWERS. 15. FOUR POWERS. W TrH AFFINITYr. Hufbands related tO each other. Stamens cohrer with eachb other, or with the pjtul. I i6. ONE BROT HERHOOD. i1. CONFEDE17. TWO RROTHERHOODS. ' RATE MALES. I8. MANY BROT1HERHOODS. 20. FENMININE I j M ALES. IN TWo BEDS. j Hufband and wife have feparatc bc.!1 Mile.flovwers andl I/le flo ers in t.ie fame I/Iecicj. 1 J 21. ONE HOC SE . 2 P.iOC5LYGAMIES. 22. TWOHO.II USES. CLANDESTINE MARRIAC;E.S.