Article ID: CBB788846724

‘All the Productions of That Nature’: Ephemera, Mycology and Sexual Classification at the Bulstrode Estate (2019)

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The study of fungi posed challenges to the botanical activities at the scientific and sociable site of Bulstrode between 1763 and 1785. This article examines the mycological practices at Bulstrode as they appeared in letters, sketches and notes by John Lightfoot, Mary Delany, Georg Dionysius Ehret and Margaret Bentinck, duchess of Portland. I argue that the descriptive and analytical difficulties that fungi presented, and the flexibility and inconclusiveness of ephemeral productions, gave the botanists at Bulstrode opportunities to configure their own botanical identities, pursue their scientific ambitions and address the limitations of Linnaeus's sexual system of classification.

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Authors & Contributors
Müller-Wille, Staffan
Dietz, Bettina
Brouwer, Christine Elisabeth
Yatsiuk, Iryna
Eric Van Vleet
Pärtel, Kadri
Concepts
Botany
Fungi
Mycology
Natural history
Classification
Sex differences
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
20th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
Estonia
Sweden
France
Australia
Institutions
Lichfield Botanical Society
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