26 CHAPTER 28. 
It is in the Maiitijfa we firfi: meet with 
Uriilures on Sloane and Petiver. Hs 
cenfures Petiver efpeciaily, with a degree 
of fatyrical acrimony, for errors in the ap- 
plication of fynomyms in his Centurice^ and 
Sloane for the like miftakes in his " Ca- 
talogue of Jamaica plants accufing the 
latter of having alfo applied his fynonyms 
from the Phytographia, without acknow- 
ledgments, or any reference. Hinc illce 
lachrymce ! 
Five years after the Mantissa, he pub- 
liHied his laft work, The Amaltheum 
Botanicum; f, Stirpium Indie arum a!- 
teriim Copice CornUy Millenas ad jninimamy et 
bis Centum diverfas Species novas et indiBas 
nominatim comprehendens : quarum fexcen^je 
et injuper fekBis Iconibus ceneifque Tabulis 
illiiflrantiiry 1705. 4°. pp. 216. tab. 351 
—4^4. Some of the tables of this volume 
belong to the plants of the Mantijd. It 
abounds with new fubjefts, fent from China 
and the Eajl Indies^ by Mr. Cunningham 
and Mr» Brov/n, and with fome from 
Florida^ 
Chinefe, or the Foco fempie, p. ill; on the Myrohakm^ 
p. 132 ^ on til e Gmfengj p. 1355 kc. &c. 
Plukenbt's 
