PLUKENET (Leonard), a physician who flour-
ished in the reign of king Charles II. was one of the
most excellent and laborious botanists of that or any
other age. He was author of the Phytographia Plu-
kenetiana, the Almagesticum Britannicum, and other
works of the like kind, on which he spent the greatest
part of his life and fortune. His Phytography is men-
tioned with the highest encomiums in the Philosophi-
cal Transactions for February 1696-7. His Opera Bo-
tanica, with cuts, were printed at London in 6 vols,
fol. in 1720.