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

Schurch, Millie (Author)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 42
Issue: 4
Pages: 519-539

URI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1754-0208.12661

DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12661

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Botany Fungi Classification Sex differences Sexology Mycology 18th century Linnaeus, Carolus Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland Ehret, Georg Dionysius Delany, Mary Lightfoot, John

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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