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parts of the lower organic bodies. His Nova Plantarum 

 Genera were published at Florence 1729> in small folio. 



453. 



The boundaries of our knowledge of plants were also un- 

 commonly extended, and the reception of the Linnaean system 

 prepared by travels into foreign countries, undertaken by 

 acute and well informed natural historians. The most re- 

 markable of these travellers was Charles Plumier, a monk of 

 the order of the Minimi, who at different times spent several 

 years in the West Indies, and died 1704. His Nova Plan- 

 tarum Genera, Paris 1703, contains descriptions and plates of 

 120 new genera. He described the West Indian Ferns in 

 his expensive woi-k, Traite des Fougeres de TAmerique, Paris 

 1705, and five hundred descriptions of plants which he had 

 left behind him were published by John Burmann, under 

 the title Plantarum Americanum fasciculus 1 — 10; Am- 

 sterdam, 1755 to 1760, folio. 



Another monk of the order of the Minimi was Lewis 

 Feuillee, who lived two years in Chili and Lima as royal bo- 

 tanist and mathematician. He died 1732, In his Journal, 

 written in French, Paris 1714 to 1725, we find a multitude 

 of rare plants of these regions described and figured. 



454. 



Asia was very diligently and thoroughly examined by En- 

 gelbrecht Kampfer. He was a native of Lemgo, and went 

 with the Swedish deputies to Persia, where he staid some 

 years, and then sailed with the Dutch fleet to the East Indies, 

 remained a year in Batavia and two years in Japan, and at 

 last returned, at the distance of ten years. He died 1716. 

 In his Amoenitates Exoticae, Lemgo 1712, in quarto, he pub- 

 lished excellent descriptions and plates of Japanese and of 

 some Persian plants. 



Asia Minor and Armenia were first examined by John 

 Christ. Buxbaum, a native of Merseberg, who was physician 

 to the Russian Embassy at Constantinople. He died 1730. 



