Q. Show Artificial systems of classification of plants?
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) popularly known as Carl Von Linne was born on May 1707 at Result, a small village in Smaland, Sweden. He took keen interest in the collection of plants, animals and minerals and for this purpose he travelled long distances. Based on the huge collection of plants during the exploration, he classified the plants and proposed a system of classification which is as a matter of fact artificial system or sexual system of classification. The most important publications of Linnaeus related to his system of classification are system a nature (1735), Flora Lipponica (1737), Genera Plantarum (1737) and Species Plantarum (1735).