Mm 



A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LVBKA 



-NEW V 



HOT AN I 



Q A HP 



Vol. XIV. No. 353. 



BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 6, 1915. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



1 I ii. Coloured 



Cotton Notes 



Bril ish Cotton ' rrow tng 



Vssi icial ion 



i operation Between 

 I ton Growers and 



- oners 



Wot Indian < lotton 



Departmental Reports ... 



Dominica, Damage to 

 Crops l.\ Storm of 

 August in 



(Cleanings 



ind Nuts, ( Cultivation 

 Experiments with 



Insect Notes: 



Insect Pests of Limn 



Beans in Si . Vincent 



Starch, Instead of Lime, 



with Pari < ' (reen 



Items of Local Interest ... 



;i;i 



;:,s 



358 

 358 



:;.;i 

 304 



mi 



363 



362 

 366 



Page. 



Land foi \:\ Soldiers ... 360 

 Lime Juice, Sediment Test 



for 355 



Limes, Budding of 357 



Market Reports 368 



Manograph on the Sanse 



vieria 35 i 



Notes and Comments ... 360 

 Rubber, Botanical Sources 



of 359 



Obituary 361 



St. Lucia Agricultural 



' n dit i (rdinance ... 361 

 St. LuciaGovernment Linn.' 



Juice Factory 356 



Scientific a'nd Vernacular 



Naming 353 



Tropica] Drug Plants ... 359 



West Indian Fruit and 



the War 360 



West Indian Products ... 367 



Scientific and Vernacular Naming. 



REl 'ISI( IN was first given to the naming oi 

 plants bj I. miii us or von Linne, the great 

 Swedish physician and botanist who lived 

 in the eigl teenth century. Based on sound principles, 



his binominal system of o enclature persists in all 



ess ntial particulars al the presi nt day, and it employed 

 with care and discretion, these binominal designations 

 constitute perhaps the mosl scientific feature of biology 

 The names i if plants as conceived by Linneus arc of 

 two kinds: those oi the class and order, which are 

 understood; and thus, . . t the genus and species, which 

 arc expressed. The name of the class and order never 



enters into the denomination of the plant, though at 

 the same time it is always connoted. All plants 

 agreeing in genus have the same generic name, and 

 each generic name must be single; and further, two 

 different genera cannol be designated by the same 

 name. Linneus also laid down the rule that the best, 

 generic names are those which express the essential 

 character or habit of a plant. In addition, he formu- 

 lated ether maxims concerning the etymological con- 

 stitution of botanical names, limiting their construction 

 to Latin and Greek: although man} of these lattei 

 canons have been criticised as trivia! and unimportant 

 :ln\ are generally respect'edat the present day. In 

 regard to the second or specific name, which is sup- 

 posed to point out the particular species of each genus, 

 we should again remember that those which indicate 

 a decided specific character are the best. A good 

 example of an intelligent specific name is found in 

 Panicum maximum, where the generic name denotes 

 the characteristic inflorescence of the genus, and the 

 specific name the idea of sizv. To designate a varii t\. 

 it should be mentioned that a third name preceded by 

 the abreviation 'van' is used after the second orspecific 



li Mill 



It is not unusual to use the name of a person as 

 it specific name (spell in the case of botanical, but not of 

 zoological names, with a capital letter) in the possessive 

 ease, as Thrinax M< >>• risi i : and iii the case of all 

 botanical and zoological names, the nam.' (generally 

 abbreviated) of the authority should be attached to 



them in order to avoid confusion in mexion with 



synonyms, thus Saccharum offi.cina.rum, L. This 

 question of synonymy is a wide subject of the 

 greatesl importance in biology. We cannot in the 

 space of this article presume to discuss it at any 

 length, but one or two aspects mat be referred to. 



