Supplementum Plantarum

Written entirely in Latin, it was intended as a supplement to the 1737 Genera Plantarum and the 1753 Species Plantarum, both written by the author's father, the "father of modern taxonomy", Carl Linnaeus.

In 1976, however, Hermann Manitz used a letter written by Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart to show that it had in fact been published in April 1782.

[2] Furthermore, the cover page states that the book was originally printed in Brunswick (Brunvigæ), Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany by the printshop Orphanotropheum (impensis Orphanotrophei means ‘At the expense of the Orphanotropheum’[3]).

[4] The work was translated by Erasmus Darwin's Lichfield Botanical Society as A System of Vegetables (1785).

It leaves the binomial nomenclature untranslated in the original Latin, but uses English in the keys and descriptions.