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The JVomencIaticre of Plants. 



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Ad 4. The impulse that led to the acknowledgment of the 

 right of priority was only the vivid desire to create a stable nom- 

 enclature. If we see that by the absolute and unlimited observance 

 of the principle we probably gain the contrary of what we intended, 

 we, who have ourselves made the rules of priority as a law, have 

 the right to amend the latter. Therefore, we present a list of genera 

 that have more than a merely scientific interest, or that are very 

 large, and we propose to conserve them in spite of the rules of pri- 

 ority, in order to avoid a general confusion by the change of many 

 thousand names. 



The Committee — P. Ascherson, A.Engler, K.Schumann, I. Urban. 



We agree to the four resolutions — A. H. Berkhout, R. Beyer, 

 C. BoUe, R. Buttner, U. Dammer, B. Frank, A. Garcke, E. Gilg, 

 M. Giirke, P. Hennings, O. Hoffman, L. Kny, E. Koehne, G. Krabbe, 

 F. Kranzlin, L. Krug, M. Kuhn, G. Lindau, E. Loew, P. Magnus, 

 F. Niedenzu, F. Pax, H. Potonie, O.Reinhardt, R. Ruthe,S. Schwen- 

 dener, P. Taubert, G. Volkens, O. Warburg, A. Winkler, L. Witt- 

 mack, E. Wunschmann. 



