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by the consistent practice of the “ Botanical Republic,” but the Inter- 
national Rules specifically cover the case in Article 54. “Names of 
genera must be rejected in the following special cases: . . . .3. When they 
are formed of two words, unless these two words were from the first 
united or joined by a hyphen.” Miller, and before him Tournefort 
and Clusius, neither joined the two words by a hyphen nor united 
them into a single word but wrote with absolute clearness: Uva Unsr. 
The name Arctostaphylos will, then, continue to be used by those 
who follow the International Rules. 
The taking up of the two unhyphenated words Uva Ursi, altered to 
a compound word Uva-Ursi, as has been done by some advocates of 
the “ American " Code, seems to be in violation of the rule in that Code 
which says: “The original orthography of names is to be maintained, 
except in the following cases; .... (a) Manifest typographical errors 
may be corrected. (b) Adjectival names of species and subspecies 
agree in gender with the generic name with which they are associated. 
(c) Generic names derived from personal names should be feminine, 
....(d) In the cases of names proposed in works in which v and 7 were 
used as vowels or u and 7 as consonants they should be corrected to 
agree with modern usage." If this rule is really to be followed by its 
advocates it is difficult to see how such an altered generic name as 
“ Uva-Ursi" is allowable when the “original orthography” of Miller, 
and Tournefort before him, and Clusius before him, was uniformly 
the two words Uva Ursi or Bear's Grape. 
Of late several botanists have been treating the Alpine Bearberry 
as belonging to a monotypic genus under the name Mairania Necker, 
Elem. Bot. i. 219 (1790), but, as Rehder & Wilson (l. c.) point out, 
Mairania was purely synonymous with Uva Ursi Tournefort and by 
neither Necker nor Desvaux, who took up the name, was used to 
distinguish the Alpine Bearberry as such. The type of Mairania is 
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. as is clearly shown by Necker's 
statement: “Quaed. Arbut. Linn. Uva ursi Tournef." Necker was 
simply reinstating Tournefort’s Uva Ursi as a genus under a mono- 
mial generic name and separating it from Arbutus with which Linnaeus 
' had merged it, saying: “Hanc cum praecedente |Arbuto], confudit 
Linnaeus: utramque, meritò separavit Tournefortius, siquidem charac- 
terem diversum, monstrant tam fructa quam numero seminum." Britton, 
in the 2d edition of the Illustrated Flora, keeps up Mairania for the 
Alpine Bearberry, ascribing it to Necker but dating it not from 
