■24 C H A P T E R 28. 
volume of his works^ confifi: entirely of 
figures. 
In the fame year with the fourth part of 
the Phytog?^aphiay came out, 
Almagestum Botanicum ; 
Thytographice Flukenetian<^ Onor/iajiicon, Me- 
thodo Syntheticd digeftum ; exhibens Stirpiwu 
exotic a?'' urn, rarioruniy nov drum que Nofninay 
quce Defcriptionis Locum fupplere poJjintJ' 
4°. 1696. pp. 402. 
Plukenet follows no fyftem ; the Ca- 
talogue is alphabetical, and contains near 
6000 fpecies, of which he tells us 500 were 
new. Synonyms are added to each, and re-r 
ferences made to thofe figured in the Pby- 
iograpbia. No man after Co/par Bauhine 
had till then examined the antient authors, 
with fo much attention, as Plukenet, in 
order to fettle the fynonyms with truth : 
and many critical notes interfperfed, prove 
his intimate acquaintance with all the re- 
fources of botanical literature. 
Not folicitous to form new genera, he 
refers, from the conformity of habit in al- 
nioft all inftances, his new plants to the 
'genera of former authors ; and, more anxious 
concerning 
