The Unsex'd
Females: Note 9
Botany has lately become a fashionable amusement with the ladies. But how the
study of the sexual system of plants can accord with female modesty, I am not able to comprehend.
See note from Darwin's Botanic Garden, at p. [Polwhele fails to give full citation]
I had, at first, written:
I have, several times, seen boys and girls botanizing together.