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CHAPTER 2§. 
many of the EiiglijJj fpecies are here figured, 
for the firft time, it has been equally ac- 
ceptable to the lovers of indigenous, as of 
exotic botany. 
LiNN^us, and others, mention a new 
edition of Plukenet's works in 1720. 
But this was nothing mxore than the ufual 
artifice of the bookfeller y who, having 
purchafed the remaining copies, placed a 
new title-page. They were, however, re- 
printed, and divided into four volumes, in 
1769, with the addition of a few plates, 
that were wanting in fome copies of the 
fourth part of the Phytographia. Thofe 
who occalionally confult this author, will 
regret, that this opportunity had not been 
taken, of infer ting the additions from the 
Mantijja into the Almagejiujny by introdu- 
cing them in a fmaller character, and pla^ 
cing the pages for both in the margin. 
Herbarium of Plukenet came into 
Sir Hems Sloan e's polTeflion, and is now 
in the Britijh Miifeum. 
In 1779, 2Xi Index Linnceanus to the tables 
was pubhfhed by Dr. Giseke, profefTor of 
poetry, and natural philofophy, in the Gym^ 
mfnim 
