154 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 



Plomley, Francis (1805 9-1860) : d. Maidstone, 9th Jan. 1860. 

 F.L.S., 1845. Lectured on Botany to Weald of Kent Farmers' 

 Club, 1849-51. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1860-61, xlii. 



Plot, Robert (1640-1696) : b. Sutton Baron, Borden, Kent, 1640; 

 d. same place, 30th April, 1696; bur. Borden. B.A., Oxon, 

 1661. M.A., 1664. D.C.L., 1671. F.R.S., 1677; Sec, 1682. 

 First Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, 1683. Mowbray Herald, 

 1695. 'Nat. Hist, of Oxfordshire,' 1677. 'Nat. Hist, of 

 Staffordshire,' 1679. Plants in Hb. Sloane, cxiii. Pult. i. 350; 

 Jacks. 592; Nich. Anec. ix. 547; Gent. Mag. lxv., 1089; 

 Lhwyd's ' Nat. Hist.' ed. 2 ; Hasted, ' History of Kent ' ; 

 Allibone ; Chalmers ; Hoefer ; Bose ; Michaud. Oil portr. in 

 Bodleian Gallery. Engr. in Hope Collection. Portr. in ' Oxford 

 Almanac,' 1749. Plotia Adans. = Myrrina. 



Plukenet, Leonard (1642-1706) : b. Jan. 1642 ; d. Westminster, 

 6th July, 1706 ; bur. Chancel of St. Margaret's, Westminster. 

 M.D. Had a bot. garden at Old Palace Yard, Westminster. 

 Queen's botanist to Mary II. Supervisor, Hampton Court 

 Garden. ' Phytographia,' 1691. ' Almagestum,' 1696. 'Man- 

 tissa,' 1700. ' Amaltheum,' 1705. MS. in Bibl. Linn. Soc. (9). 

 Herbarium of 8000 plants in Herb. Sloane. Had a farm at 

 Horn Hill, Herts. Trans. Watford Soc. i. (1875), 23 ; Pult. h. 

 18 ; Bees ; Pritz. 249 ; Jacks. 593 ; Journ. Bot. 1882, 338 ; 

 Fl. Midd. 374 ; Hoefer ; Michaud. Portr. engr. Collins, 1690, 

 in ' Phytographia.' Plukenetia Plumier. 



Pocock, Robert (1760-1830) : b. Gravesend, Kent, 21st Feb. 

 1760; d. Dartford, 26th Oct. 1830. Printer. Founded Nat. 

 Hist. Society of Kent, 1812. Plants in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 ' Robert Pocock,' by G. M. Arnold, 1883, with portr. ; Journ. 

 Bot. 1884, 53 (portr.). 



Poeocke, Rev. Richard (1704-1765): b. Southampton, 1704; 

 d. Meath, 15th Sept. 1765. B.A., Oxon, 1725. D.C.L., 1733. 

 F.R.S. Travelled in East, 1737-42. ' Description of the East,' 

 1743. Bishop of Ossory, 1756 ; of Meath, 1765. MSS. in Mus. 

 Brit. Rees; Nich. Anec. ii. 157; Lasegue, 409; Rose; Chal- 

 mers. Pocockia Ser. 



Pollexfen, Rev. John Hutton (fl. 1836-1883) : b. Orkney. M.D. 

 F.B.S.Ed., 1836. Algologist. Helped Edmonston in 'Fl. 

 Shetland' (1845). Journ. Bot. 1844, 431. Pollexfenia Harv. 



Polwhele, Rev. Richard (1759-1838); b. Truro, 1759; d. March, 

 1838. Of Polwhele, Cornwall. Vicar of Manaccan, 1794-1816. 

 List of plants with Cornish names in ' Hist. Cornwall,' i. 164, 

 and iv. 125; 'Bot. Guide,' 194; Gent. Mag. 1838, i. 545. 



Pool, Thomas (fl. 1695). Of Nottingham. " A diligent enquirer 

 into Natural History," Mus. Pet. no. 89. 



Poole, Rev. John (c. 1771-1857) : b. Over Stowey, Somerset, 

 c. 1771; d. 16th May, 1857. B.A., Oxon, 1792. Rector of 

 Enmore, Somerset, 1796; of Swainswick, 1811. New Bot. 

 Guide, 553. 



Portland, Margaret, Duchess of [See Harley] . 



Porter, Sir Robert Ker (1780-1842): b. Durham, 1780; d. St. 



