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Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.


Biography

Plukenet published ''Phytographia'' (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present. He collaborated with
John Ray John Ray Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (November 29, 1627 – January 17, 1705) was a Christian England, English Natural history, naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his ...
in the second volume of ''Historia Plantarum'' (London, 1686–1704).
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(1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of
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in ''Index Linnaeanus'' (Hamburg, 1779). ''Pluk. mant.'', refers to the third volume (London, 1700) of the first edition of ''Historia Plantarum'', the whole of which was published 1691–1705.


Works

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Bibliography

* Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars prior (1690)Stafleu, Frans A. & Cowan, Richard S.
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, 2nd edn, vol. 4, pp. 300-301 (1983)
/ref> * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars altera (1691) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars tertia (1692) * Phytographia, sive Stirpium Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones Tabulis Æenis, Summa diligentiâ elaboratœ, pars quarta (1696) * Almagestum Botanicum sive Phytographiæ Plukenetianæ Onomasticon Methodo Syntheticâ digestum (1696) * Almagesti botanici mantissa. Plantarum novissime detectarum ultra millenarium numerum complectens (1700) * Amaltheum botanicum. stirpium indicarum alterum copiae cornu millenas ad minimum & bis centum diversas species novas & indictas nominatim comprehendens (1705)


See also

* List of florilegia and botanical codices


References


Further reading

* '' Phytographia'', sive stirpium illustriorum et minus cognitarum icones, tabulis aeneis summa diligentia elaboratae, quarum unaquaque titulis descriptoriis ex notis suis propriis et characteristicis desumtis insignita, ab aliis ejusdem sortis facile discriminantur, by Leonard Plukenet, London: 1691–1696. * ''Codex Bentingiana'', the catalog of the garden of Hans Willem Bentinck was a source for the Phytographia


External links


download ''Amaltheum Botanicum''
17th-century English botanists 1641 births 1706 deaths {{UK-botanist-stub