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Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an
English botanist,
Royal Professor of
Botany and
gardener to
Queen Mary.
Plukenet published Phytographia (London, 1691–1696)...
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Leonard Plukenet's Phytographia under the
descriptive name "Ilex
folio agrifolii americana,
forte agria, vel
aquifolia glandifera"
which Plukenet had compared...
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Prunus maritima racemosa, "maritime grape-cluster Prunus", and
Leonard Plukenet, who
named it
Uvifera littorea, "grape-bearer of the s****", both of which...
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different species.
Spongilla was
first publicly recognized in 1696 by
Leonard Plukenet and can be
found in lakes,
ponds and slow streams.Spongilla have a leuconoid...
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species were made by
Francisco Hernández de
Toledo (1651) and
Leonard Plukenet (1692).
After Linnaeus, a
major treatment of the
genus was made by Jean-Baptiste...
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Aldrovanda vesiculosa was
first mentioned and
illustrated in 1691 by
Leonard Plukenet,
based on
collections made in India. He
named the
plant Lenticula palustris...
- Borneo] One of the
earliest illustrations of
Nepenthes appears in
Leonard Plukenet's Almagestum Botani**** of 1696. The plant,
called Utricaria vegetabilis...
- elsewhere. The
botanical name
hollandica was
first used for an elm
variety by
Plukenet in 1697 in
describing a
cultivar of this
group now
called 'Major'. In form...
- minerals,
precious stones and
curiosities in amber.
Sloane purchased Leonard Plukenet's collection in 1710. It
consisted of twenty-three
volumes with over 8,000...
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Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualterio,
James Petiver,
Nehemiah Grew,
Leonard Plukenet, the
Duchess of Beaufort, Adam Buddle, Paul Hermann,
Franz Kiggelaer and...
