PIuke?iet. 25 
concerning the /pedes, he lias defcribed 
them with an accuracy that has been 'ap- 
plauded. Not that Plukenet was un- 
ac.qaaiiited with fyfiem, as is manifeft from 
one of his criticifms on Sloane, in the 
Mantijfa, p 113; and from his Obferva- 
tions on the firft edition of Mr. Ray's Sy-- 
nopjis^ pubhfhed in the CoUettion of Ray's 
Letters, p. 226. 
Four years after the publication of the 
Phytographi A, came out, with a con- 
tinuation of the plates, ''Almagesti Bo- 
TANici Mantissa, Plantanm 7ioviJ]ime 
deleBaruin ultra MUlenarium Ntimerii?n com" 
pkBens.'' 1700. 4". pp.192, tab. 329^ — 354. 
Befides many new plants, this volume con- 
tains very numerous additions to the fyno- 
nyms of the Almagejbun, Many curious cri- 
tical obfervations, on fome of the plants of 
the ancient authors, occur in this volume • 
v^hich evince the depth of his knowledge, 
and the extreme pains he took in the invefti- 
gation of his fubjeds . A very copious in- 
dex to both voium.es concludes the work. 
It 
^ See his Obfervations on die Qaru!;, p. 41 ; on the 
Jiifnpr of the Hebrey/Sj p, 109 ; en the Kirija of the 
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