 It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present.He collaborated with John Ray in the second volume of "Historia Plantarum" (London, 1686–1704).Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796) compared Plukenet's species with those of Linnaeus in "Index Linnaeanus" (Hamburg, 1779).