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C H A P. 28. 
Flukenet — Short memoirs of — A learned, critical^ 
and laborious hotanifi — His Phytographia — 
Almageftum and Mantifla— i^/V Amaltheum — 
His works had great merit — Contain near 2800 
Plukenet unmindful of generical cha- 
ra5lers — His firiElures on Slcane — His works 
reprinted in 1769. 
Dr. Uvedale^ Enfield. 
P L U K E N E T. 
IT has been the fate of many learned 
men, who have deferved highly of the 
republic of letters, to have the private cir- 
cumftances, and occurrences of their lives, 
in a few years, fo far involved in obfcuri- 
ty, that almoft their immediate pofterity, 
howfoever defirous of gratifying a natural 
and laudable curiofity, and of rendering to 
their memory that tribute which their fer- 
vices have demanded, have been almoft 
wholly fruftrated in their endeavours to ref- 
cue them from oblivion. 
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