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Recommendation 5a. Sect. 1. Naming of Taxa 



this interpretation, Breinbnctrrium would not mean the "short rod- 

 let" but the "short Bacterium." 



However, hybrid generic names, if validly published, have the 

 same status as though they were correctly formed. 



The Zoological Rules recommend that a Greek word should not 

 be combined with a Latin word in forming a generic name. 



Recoynmenddtion 5a (6) . In Latin the names of most plants (not 

 all) are feminine. Obviously, if all generic names in botany or bac- 

 teriology were feminine some problems of nomenclature would be 

 simplified. Later it will be noted that it is recommended that generic 

 names formed from the names of persons, whether men or women, 

 should end in -a or -ia and be treated as feminine nouns. 



This recommendation has not always been followed; there have 

 been proposed as bacterial generic names such derivatives as Wesen- 

 hergiis Castellani and Chalmers, and MaciutosJiiUus Heller. 



The Zoological Code does not recommend that personal names 

 be Latinized into feminine generic names, but suggests the use of 

 endings which are masculine, feminine or neuter. In practice, how- 

 ever, zoologists have usually preferred to put generic names derived 

 from patronymics in feminine form. 



The Botanical Code includes several additional recommendations 

 of interest, namely: 



(a) To use Latin terminations inasfar as possible. 



(e) To indicate, it possible, by the formation ot ending ot the name 



the affinities or analogies of tfie genus. 

 (g) Not to use a name similar to or derived from the epithet of one 

 of the species of the taxon. 



