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Familles des plantes
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- In Michel Adanson
Adanson’s Familles des plantes (1763) described his classification system for plants, which was much opposed by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who had proposed his own classification system based on the reproductive organs of plants. Adanson’s classification of mollusks, a group that he originally described, was…
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