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In contrast to these great 



advantages and 



savings of the 

 /7?7-starting-point, there are— see my Revisio Gencrum III", 

 chapter 27 and 28— to be changed with the /75J -starting-point the 



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Furthermore 



to receive 



with 152 species are named up to the present time. 

 ^6 genera thereof with 3621 species would have still 

 new'' and unusual names instead of those introduced from the 

 earlier starting-point. But even with this the number of these 

 changes is not finished, because the starting-point of 1753 for 

 genera has not yet been completely worked out. This 1753- 

 starting-point is thus not only horribly noxious but also umcicutific, 

 as it misses the genera-diagnoses and nearly all the named genera- 



sections. Only ih 



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■point is practicable, scicntifii 



economical for genera. Perhaps a general convention may be 

 agreed upon to the effect that the 1 73 7-starting-point be valid for 

 genera, 1753 for species 7oith future exclusion of all intermediate 

 w^r/.-^, 'that is of all publications between Linnacaus' Genera Plan- 

 tarum 1737 and Species Plantarum 1753. 



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