No new species were described, and the work, written in the vernacular, was simply a guide to the indigenous plants of France, beginning with the cryptogams and ending with the flowering plants.

A second edition appeared in 1780, and a third, edited and remodelled by A.P.De Candolle, and forming six volumes, appeared in 1805-1815.

This was until within a comparatively few years the standard French botany.
Soon after the publication of his _Flore Francaise_ he projected two other works which gave him a still higher position among botanists.

His _Dictionnaire de Botanique_ was published in 1783-1817, forming eight volumes and five supplementary ones.

The first two and part of the third volume were written by Lamarck, the remainder by other botanists, who completed it after Lamarck had abandoned botanical studies and taken up his zooelogical work.