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' Nat. Hist, of Staffordshire,' 1679. Plants in Hb. Sloane, 

 cxiii. Pult. i. 350 ; Jacks. 592 ; Eich. Corr. ; E. Syn. ; Nich. 

 Anec. ix. 647; Gent. Mag. Ixv., 1089; Lhwyd's ' Nat. Hist.' 

 ed. 2 ; Hasted, ' History of Kent ' ; AUibone ; Chalmers ; 

 Hoefer ; Eose ; Michaud. Oil portr. in Bodleian Gallery. 

 Bngr. in Hope Collection. Portr. in 'Oxford Almanac,' 1749. 

 Plotia Adans. = Myrsina. 



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

 ster, 6 July, 1706 ; bur. Chancel of St. Margaret's, Westmin- 

 ster. M.D. Had a hot. garden at Old Palace Yard, West- 

 minster. Queen's botanist to Mary II. Supervisor, Hamp- 

 ton Court Garden. ' Phytographia,' 1691. ' Almagestum,' 

 1696. ' Mantissa,' 1700. ' Amaltheum,' 1705. MS. in Bot. 

 Dept., Brit. Mus. Herbarium of 8000 plants in Herb. Sloane. 

 Had a farm at Horn Hill, Herts. Pult. ii. 18 ; Eees ; Pritz. 

 249; Jacks. 593; Trans. Watford Soc. i. (1875), 23; Journ. 

 Bot. 1882, 338; Fl. Midd. 374; Hoefer; Michaud. Portr. 

 engr. Collins, 1690, in ' Phytographia.' Plukenetia Plumier. 



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

 1760; d. Dartford, 26 Oct., 1830. Printer. Pounded Nat. 

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

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

 Bot. 1884, 53 (portr.). 



Fococke, Rev. Richard (1704-65) : b. Southampton, 1704 ; d. 

 Meath, 15 Sept., 1766. B.A. Oxon, 1725; D.C.L., 1733. 

 P.E.S. Travelled in Bast, 1737-42. 'Description of the 

 East,' 1743. Bishop of Ossory, 1766; of Meath, 1765. MSS. 

 in Mus. Brit. Eees ; Nich. Anec. ii. 157 ; Lasegue, 409 ; 

 Eose ; Chalmers. Pocookia Ser. 



Polwhele, Rev. Richard (1760-1838): b. Truro, 6 -Jan., 1760; 

 d. Truro, 12 March, 1838 ; bur. St. Clement's, Truro. 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 dihgent enquirer 

 into Natural History,'-' Mus. Pet. no. 89. "A curious botanist," 

 Phil. Trans, xxvii. 39. 



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

 c. 1771 ; d. 16 May, 1867. B.A. Oxon, 1792. Eector of 

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

 Guide, 553. 



Portland, Margaret, Duchess of [see Haelby] . 



Porter, George (fl. 1828). Of Bot. Garden, Penang. Collector 

 for Wallich. See Wall. List, no. 192. 



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

 Petersburg, 4 May, 1842. Historical painter. H.M. Consul 

 at Caraccas, 1826-41. Zoologist. Knighted, 1813. Carac- 

 cas plants in Fielding's Herb, at Oxford. Journ. Bot. 1854, 

 283 ; Ic. PI. 864 ; Gent. Mag. 1842, ii. 90 ; 1860, ii. 364 ; 

 'Athenaeum,' 1842, 479; Bot. Mag. 3723; Allibone; Bryan; 

 Hoefer ; Michaud. Porteria Hook. = Phyllactis. 



Potts, John (d. 1822): d. London?, Oct., 1822. Collector for 



