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points of view; he proposed to arrange in the same group those 
plants which were classed as allies in the greatest number of systems. 
In this manner Adanson created sixty-five artificial systems, 
and by their comparison, he formed them into fifty-eight families. 
He was the first to trace the precise characters and details of all 
these families ; his work in this respect is far superior to those 
anson, 
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of his predecessors, Nevertheless if Michel Adanson was right 
“employing all their characteristics in classifying these plants, 
y ce Mota on the other hand, in giving the same importance 
“» le reckoned up the characters without considering that 
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