[89] See Sachs, ‘Lehrbuch der Botanik,’ ed. 4 (1874), p. 129 (p. 128 of 2nd English edition).
[90] See Ernst Meyer, ‘Geschichte der Botanik,’ I. p. 98, &c.
[91] The edition here used is that of Gottlob Schneider, ‘Theophrasti Eresii quæ supersunt opera,’ Leipzig, 1818. See in addition to the passages noticed in the text the ‘De Causis,’ l. I. c. 13. 4, and l. IV. c. 4, and the ‘Historia Plantarum,’ l. II. c. 8.
[92] It should be understood that neither Theophrastus nor the botanists of the 16th and 17th centuries considered the rudiments of the fruit to be part of the flower; this, which was pointed out in the history of systematic botany, seems to have been overlooked by Meyer, ‘Geschichte,’ I. p. 164.
[93] The passage is quoted in full in De Candolle’s ‘Physiologie végétale,’ 1835, ii. p. 44. It is said there of the pollen, ‘Ipso et pulvere etiam feminas maritare.’
[94] See De Candolle, ‘Physiologie végétale,’ p. 47.
[95] His ‘Methodus Herbaria’ is said to have been published in 1592. The remarks in the text are made in reliance on a long quotation from it in Roeper’s translation of De Candolle’s ‘Physiologie,’ ii. p. 49, who had before him an edition of 1604.
[96] In the ‘Compositae,’ however, Grew called the single flowers the florid attire, see p. 37.
[97] We may compare with this, pp. 38 and 39 of the first part of the work which appeared in 1671, where Grew ascribed no sexual significance to the stamens.
[98] Rudolph Jacob Camerarius was born at Tübingen in 1665 and died there in 1721. Having completed the course of study in philosophy and medicine, he travelled from 1685 to 1687 in Germany, Holland, England, France, and Italy. In 1688 he became Professor Extraordinary and Director of the Botanic Garden in Tübingen; in 1689 Professor of Natural Philosophy; and finally, in 1695, First Professor of the University, in succession to his father, Elias Rudolph Camerarius. He was afterwards succeeded by his son Alexander, one of ten children. There is an article on Camerarius in the ‘Biographie Universelle,’ from the pen of Du Petit-Thouars. His works on other subjects, as well as those on the question of sexuality in plants, are distinguished by ingenious conception and lucid exposition.