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88. A genus is not a synonym because it has among its originally 

 included species one or more that is already the type of another 

 genus. 



89. Names, when used and treated by their author as generic 

 names, are such, even when called by some other names, as "conors," 

 &c. 



90. To rank as a subgenus a name, or its initial, must be so stated 

 or used, or placed in parentheses between the generic and specific 

 names. Any name given to any division of a genus and neither 

 designated nor used as a subgenus has no standing in nomenclature. 



Note. — There are thousands of such names, called series, cohors, 

 divisions, groups, sections, legions, &c, or even families and races. 

 Such have not been cataloged as genera nor subgenera. 



91. Subgeneric names are subject to the same rules as generic 

 names. One subgeneric name shall be the same as that of the genus 

 to which it is subordinate, and its type the same as that of the genus. 



92. A genus does not lose its genotype by becoming a subgenus, 

 and a subgenus on becoming a genus retains its former type if it 

 had one; otherwise a type must be selected from among those sp 

 originally included under it as a subgenus. 



Type of a Genus. 



93. In every genus there shall be one species known as the type, 

 or genotype. Two essential qualifications of a genotype are: 1st. 

 It shall have a valid name. 2d. That name shall have been origi- 

 nally included, without question in the genus. 



94. No specific name originally quoted in synonymy in a certain 

 genus can be accepted as the type of thai genus, nor one doubtfully 

 determined, provided there are others available for type citation 

 under these rules. 



95. Genera with but one originally included specific name (ex- 

 clusive of synonyms and subspecies or varieties) are monobasic and 

 genera with more than one such name, not including synonyms, are 

 poly basic. 



96. The genotype of a monobasic genus is the only specific w.iww 

 cited, irrespective of misidentification or restriction. 



Example. — Alpha Smith, new genus with a single specific name 

 included, the Beta alba of Jones. Then Beta <tli<<i Jones is the geno- 



