Michel Adanson listed 58 families, divided bysections,for the 1615 genera known to him. He gave these both French and Latin names. The system was completed byAntoine Laurent de Jussieuin 1789.
Adanson's listing (Pages 1-7 of Part II) offamiliesis as follows (with page numbers of families together with sections and genera in parentheses). Note spelling varies throughout text. The detailed descriptions of families are separately paginated, and shown here initalics,after the Latin names. Some families shown with sections (note not all sections were named, some were just described).
This is a selected list of the more influential systems. There are many other systems, for instance a review of earlier systems, published byLindleyin his 1853 edition, andDahlgren(1982). Examples include the works ofScopoli,Ventenat,BatschandGrisebach.
Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta
