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may as well throw Latin nomenclature over and use the vernaeular. The condition of things 
in which "sage brush"") gets into European works as *Salvia" is not greatly bettered by 
one in which four or five nomenclators wil have to be used and cross references made in 
order to be sure what a given binomial refers to. I have followed and shall continue to 
follow the Rochester rules because l see no Other rules available for American botanists, 
and because I prefer rules to caprice as a guide, whether I entirely agree with the rules 
or not. But if American botanists are to be content with legislation for their own needs 
and are to remain indifferent to or even to hinder international action, will Dr. Kuntze's 
- aunt that we are anarchists be wholly unwarranted ? í 
E. In Mr. Erwin F. Smith's "Protest" against the check-list, he says: "What we need: 
is the speedy convening of a representative international botanieal congress, which shall 
- amend the Paris code . . . . and shall settle once for all certain disputed interpretations 
7 of this code." Those of us who have been unwilling to abide in anarchy till such a congress 
— 4s convened should not be less active in urging competent international action than our 
— amore conservative brothers. 
Für das Jahr 1900 wird nunmehr aber ein competenter genügend 
- vorbereiteter Congress nicht mehr móglich sein. 
p 4. That the varietal name be subject to the same laws of permanency as 
— dhose, which govern the specific. Dieser 4. Britton'sche Vorschlag ist laut 
E Botanical Gazette l. c. abgelehnt worden, was Britton in Bull. bot. Torrey 
- Olub l c. seltsamerweise ganz todtgeschwiegen hat. Ich finde dieses Princip 
- aber in Sudworth's Nomenclature of the arborescent Flora (Washington 1897, 
L 89 419 S.) durchgeführt, und daher darin manche wunderbare neue Namen. | 
E. Àm 23. August 1893 fand der in Rev. III: COCCCXX angezeigte inter- | 
— mationale botanische Congress in Madison, Wis. U.S.A. statt, dessen Pro- | 
L eeedings erst im Juni 1894 ,published by the generosity of the citizens of 
7 Madison^ erschienen. Darin sind für unsere Aufgabe betreffende Stellen 
- zu finden: 
- . Pag. 9: Dr. Otto Kuntze of Friedenau bei Berlin not only suggested certain phases 
7 €f the "nomenclature question," but also proposed a method by which the work of the 
7 Congress could be continued and merged into that of subsequent congresses. The following | 
L i8 a pat of his communication: | 
1 "As I am unable to visit the Madison Congress, I beg of you to examine the follow- 
ng propositions and with your kind endorsement to submit them to the Congress: 
The Madison Congress should appoint a committee for preliminary deliberation 
L from sueh of its members as according to $ 70 of my Codex emendatus shall be competent. 
- This committee should be requested to first consider sub 9, 8, 5. 
7. . (2) The Congress can decide in favor of either the year 1785 or 1737 as a starting 
L point for our nomenclature. As for me, I could not accept the starting point of 1753 from 
à Congress, the legislative competency of which was not beyond every doubt, because 1758 
Lis disadvantageous for all botanists, and is not founded upon proper scientific researches. 
- Aven in the first volume of the Index Kewensis, which has just appeared, the starting point 
1 *f 1753," propositio inepta, kewensis," has not been adhered to. 
— ... '* Sage-brush — Salbeibuseh der Nordamerikaner ist Aríemisia tridentata Nutt.; das 
3 dürften allerdings nur wenige europüische Botaniker wissen. Ich will noch einige Pendants | 
- hierzu geben, wie fremdsprachige Wórter selbst von bedeutenden Gelehrten missverstanden | 
1 Werden. Plantains sind Bananen, wurden aber von H. Müller-Lippstadt einmal für ,,Plata- | 
L Beh genommen, trotzdem ihr Fehlen in den Tropen ihn hátte stutzig machen sollen; | 
- turtle ist Sehildkróte, aber der berühmte Geograph Peschel liess einmal die ,, Turteltauben* | 
. àm Strande herumlaufen; bushel ist ein englisches grosses Getreidemaass, aber C. Müller- 
3 Halle liess einmal in einem Erntebericht über Australien nur wenige ,,Büschel* Getreide | 
1 auf dem Acker wachsen. Lime hat fünferlei Bedeutung: Linde, Citrone, Leim, Kalk und | 
einstein; auf der Naturforscherversammlung in Danzig hielt einst ein Englünder einen 
L QOrtrag, über den man deutsch referiren wollte; glücklicherweise zeigte man mir vorher das | 
7 morat, sodass ich die Publication eines unsinnigen Missverstündnisses verhindern konnte. 
le Volksausdrücke sind nicht zur internationalen Nomenclatur geeignet und 4—5 diverse 
- "wemenclaturen sind noch verwirrender. | 
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