CHAPTER 30. 
living : he has, in this way, given appella-* 
tions to more than fifty genera, taken from 
the names of botanifts. 
In the courfe of thefe pages, thofe gene- 
rical terms, which have been formed from 
the names Englijh botanifts bf renown, 
thus celebrated by Father Plumier, are 
mentioned under their refpeftive articles • 
but I here colled: them into one view : 
Gerardia. Pliikenetia, 
Lobelia, Rajania. 
Morifoniai Sloanea^ 
Parkinfonia. ^urnera. 
Pefiveria. 
In the year 1704, he was prevailed on by 
M. Fagon, to undertake a voyage to Peru^ 
to difcover and delineate the Peruvian Bark 
tree* Nothing but the greateft zeal for 
fcience, could induce a man at the age of 
fifty-eight, to attempt fo perilous a voyagCo 
While he was waiting for the fhip, to em- 
bark with a new viceroy at Port St, Mary, 
near Cadiz, he was feized with a pleurify, 
and died. 
Having, before his departure from Paris, 
prepared for the prefs his Trait e des Foil-- 
^ gere^ 
