Gives directions for reciprocal shipments of plants and seeds. Criticizes Linnaeus sharply for his bad Latin, noting that Linnaeus’ generic names of Scopola, Tillaea, and Jussiaea should be Scopolia, Tillia, and Jussia, and that Pittonia, Jacquina, and Adansonia should be Pittona, Jacquina, and Adansona. Linnaeus did not loose his judgment, because Adanson could not find in his works the slightest trace of it. Adanson defies anybody to show him anything new [in Linnaeus’ work] which warrants one hundredth of the celebrity which he acquired only by praising his pupils, although he cannot boast of having made one botanist, in contrast with Tournefort, who made the de Jussieu’s, and other persons who will avenge this Age of usurpation. Adanson reports that it is his intention to publish his “figures,” so that all naturalists may obtain them at the lowest price possible, 80 livres per 1,000 plates for subscribers and 100 livres for others, making the cost 2,400 to 3,000 livres for a complete set of 30,000 natural history plates. These would be well executed, with details drawn by Adanson himself, which would eliminate the expense of 10- to 30-thousand livres otherwise necessary for purchase of illustrated natural history books, and which often are so incomplete that time spent in search of such figures is lost. He notes that this second edition of Familles des plantes is completely ready for publication, with accounts of new genera and other additions; it will not go to the printer before the Histoire du Sénégal is published, which the publisher promises to take up without delay.