GENERIC RULES. 



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well as the first letters, Ex. QJiimaris, Marica, 

 Narica, 3Iai'iscus. 



3G. Generic names made by a mere modifi- 

 cation of terminations, are inadmissible, and all 

 those made by adding oides, ella, ola, ilus, ia^ 

 ium, aria, ea, ata, ita, astrum, ago, formis, 

 opsis, emum, &lc. must be changed. Lin. 226, 



227. This useful linnean rule has been often 

 neglected, producing a crowd of equivocal 

 names to be rejected : such as Polifgonella, 

 Qentaurella, Cicutaria, Portiilacaria, Lina- 

 ria, Helianthemum, Oryzopsis, Slc. 



37. Equivocal names pronounced nearly alike 

 must be avoided ; but need not be changed, un- 

 less the difference is only in termination. Lin. 



228. Ex. Mitella, Mitchella, Michelia, are bad 

 names on that account, but the following still 

 worse. 1 Apis L, 2 Apus Cuvier, 3 Apios, 

 Pursh, 4 Apium 5 Apion, Herbst, might be 

 changed to 1 Apicula, 2 Apodlum, 3 Gonan- 

 cylis, 4 Apium, 5 Apionus. — ^ea same as J^eus 

 I make Mayzea. — Scolopendra,Scolopendriu7n 

 this last must become Glossopteris or PhyUitis 

 — Delphinus and Delphinium or rather Flo- 

 thirium ^c. 



38. We must avoid to give barbarous names 

 to Genera, Lin. 229, but we may sometimes ad- 

 mit Arabic,Celtic, Indian, African or American 

 names, when not too harsh, and easily latinized. 

 Linneus did so for Yucca, Datura, Kibes Slc. 

 — Pacurina, Valovea are much better than 

 Messerschmidia, Schwenkfelda. 



39. Foreign names must be latinized, soften- 

 ed or receive a proper termination. Lin. 248. 

 Thus we must write Calesia, Areca, Cupuya, 

 instead of Calesjam, Arec, Coupoui &lc. 



40. Names too long must be abreviated, and 



