This work was followed shortly by other publications, mostly on botanical subjects, in which, among other things, he worked out in detail his famous "system." This system is founded on the sexes of plants, and is usually referred to as an "artificial method" of classification because it takes into account only a few marked characters of plants, without uniting them by more general natural affinities.

At the present time it is considered only as a stepping-stone to the "natural" system; but at the time of its promulgation it was epoch-marking in its directness and simplicity, and therefore superiority, over any existing systems.
One of the great reforms effected by Linnaeus was in the matter of scientific terminology.

Technical terms are absolutely necessary to scientific progress, and particularly so in botany, where obscurity, ambiguity, or prolixity in descriptions are fatally misleading.
Linnaeus's work contains something like a thousand terms, whose meanings and uses are carefully explained.

Such an array seems at first glance arbitrary and unnecessary, but the fact that it has remained in use for something like two centuries is indisputable evidence of its practicality.

The descriptive language of botany, as employed by Linnaeus, still stands as a model for all other subjects.
Closely allied to botanical terminology is the subject of botanical nomenclature.