Charles Plumier (April 20, 1646-November 20, 1704) was a French botanist, after whom the genus Plumeria (originally named Plumiera) is named. April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... // Events The Westminster Confession of Faith Ongoing events Wars of the Three Kingdoms, including the English Civil War (1642-1649) Births February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. ... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Building of the Students Monument in Aiud, Romania. ... Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ... Species 7-8 species including: Plumeria (common name: Frangipani) is a small genus of 7-8 species native to tropical and subtropical America. ...

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On being sent to the French monastery of Trinità dei Monti at Rome, Plumier studied botany under two members of the order, and especially under the Cistercian botanist, Paolo Boccone. After his return to France he became a pupil of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whom he accompanied on botanical expeditions. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ... Cistercians coat of arms The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. ... Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (June 5, 1656 – December 28, 1708) was a French botanist. ...

He also explored the coasts of Provence and Languedoc. His work began in 1689, when, by order of the government, he accompanied Surian to the French Antilles. As this first journey proved very successful, Plumier was appointed royal botanist; in 1693, by command of Louis XIV of France, he made his second journey, and in 1695 his third journey to the Antilles and Central America. While in the West Indies he was assisted by the Dominican botanist Jean-Baptiste Labat. In 1704, when about to start on his fourth journey, intending to visit the home of the true cinchona tree in Peru, he was taken ill with pleurisy and died at Puerto de Santa Maria near Cadiz. Flag of Provence Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ... Coat of arms of the province of Languedoc, now being used as an official flag by the Midi-Pyrénees region as well as by the city of Toulouse Languedoc (Lengadòc in Occitan) is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc... Events Louis XIV of France passed the Code Noir, allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies. ... The Antilles now generally refers to the islands of the Caribbean except the Bahamas. ... For the Beatles song, see Sun King (song) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at 77 years old. ... The Antilles now generally refers to the islands of the Caribbean except the Bahamas. ... Map of Central America Central America is the subcontinent of America between North America and South America, beginning south of the Gulf of Mexico (the exact location is defined variously) and ending at the border between Panama and Colombia. ... Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663-1738), French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner. ... Species See text Cinchona L., is the name of a genus in Rubiaceae family, large evergreens that can grow over 10 metres tall. ... Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs, which can cause painful respiration and other symptoms. ... This article is about the Spanish city. ...

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He is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. All natural scientists of the eighteenth century spoke of him with admiration. Tournefort and Linnaeus named in his honour the genus Plumiera, which belongs to the family Apocynaceae and is indigenous in about forty species to Central America; it is now called Plumeria, with the name of Plumeroideae for its first sub-family. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (June 5, 1656 – December 28, 1708) was a French botanist. ... Carolus Linnaeus Baba black sheep crowned patani queen Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as (help· info), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid... Genera See Taxonomy and Genera. ... Map of Central America Central America is the subcontinent of America between North America and South America, beginning south of the Gulf of Mexico (the exact location is defined variously) and ending at the border between Panama and Colombia. ... Species 7-8 species including: Plumeria (common name: Frangipani) is a small genus of 7-8 species native to tropical and subtropical America. ...

• The standard botanical author abbreviation Plum. is applied to the species he described.
• Plumier identified and described the Fuchsia, which he discovered on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean in 1696-7. He published his first description of the Fuchsia (Fuchsia triphylla, flore coccineo) in 1703.
• The French explorer and botanist Louis Feuillée was one of his pupils.
• His first work was Description des plantes de l'Amérique (Paris, 1693); it contained 108 plates, half of which represented ferns. This was followed by Nova plantarum americanarum genera (Paris, 1703-04), with 40 plates; in this work about one hundred genera, with about seven hundred species, were redescribed. At a later date Linnaeus adopted in his system, almost without change, these and other newly described genera arranged by Plumier. Plumier left a work in French and Latin ready to be printed entitled Traité des fougères de l'Amérique (Paris, 1705), which contained 172 excellent plates. The publication "Filicetum Americanum" (Paris, 1703), with 222 plates, was compiled from those already mentioned. Plumier also wrote another book of an entirely different character on turning, L'Art de tourner (Lyons, 1701; Paris, 1749); this was translated into Russian by Peter the Great; the manuscript of the translation is at St. Petersburg.
• At his death Plumier left thirty-one manuscript volumes containing descriptions, and about 6000 drawings, 4000 of which were of plants, while the remainder reproduced American animals of nearly all classes, especially birds and fish. The botanist Boerhave had 508 of these drawings copied at Paris; these were published later by Burmann, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam, under the title: "Plantarum americanarum, quas olim Carolus Plumierus detexit", fasc. I-X (Amsterdam, 1755-60), containing 262 plates. Plumier also wrote treatises for the Journal des Savants and for the Mémoires de Trévoux. Through his observations in Martinique, Plumier proved that the cochineal belongs to the animal kingdom and should be classed among the insects.

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