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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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    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...
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    it Prunus maritima racemosa, "maritime grape-cluster Prunus", and Leonard Plukenet, who named it Uvifera littorea, "grape-bearer of the shore", both of...
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    American species were made by Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1651) and Leonard Plukenet (1692). After Linnaeus, a major treatment of the genus was made by...
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    in Leonard Plukenet's Phytographia under the descriptive name "Ilex folio agrifolii americana, forte agria, vel aquifolia glandifera" which Plukenet had...
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  • Plantarum Catalogus Franz Kiggelaer (1648–1722) 1691 London Phytographia Leonard Plukenet (1642–1706) 1693 Paris Description des plantes de l'Amérique Charles...
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    Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualterio, James Petiver, Nehemiah Grew, Leonard Plukenet, the Duchess of Beaufort, Adam Buddle, Paul Hermann, Franz Kiggelaer...
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    considered inedible. Calostoma cinnabarinum has a long taxonomic history. Leonard Plukenet illustrated a "dusty fungus from Virginia, an elegant twisted work...
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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...
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    six decades, several other descriptions were published, such as by Leonard Plukenet, James Petiver, John Ray and Herman Boerhaave. Names published before...
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