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6) de rediger le reglement de DC. en entier au sens des propositioiis 

 ci-dessus, eu remplagant partout le terme „nom speciflque" par 

 „epithete speciflque" et l'expression „ combinaison de noms" par 

 „nom compose", L'auteur de ces propositions accepterait volontiers 

 cette redaction du reg-lement, si on lui confie la meme (voy. cj-dessus 

 p. 40). 



Englisli text. 



Referring to tlie arguments explained above in German, I recommend 

 to the Yienna Congress of 1905 tlie following propositions: 



1) not to admit in the new regulations of nomenclature any of tliose 

 expressions, which niight give them the appearance of a matter of 

 legislation, law or criticism, viz. „law, legal, legitimate, legislative, 

 legislation, code, canon" etc. 



2) to insert before the first § of the second section of the Paris regulations 

 of 1867 the following §: 



§ 1. On the grammatical Classification of the names. 



Art. 17 sexies. In scientific language as in Latin and in 

 modern languages, the designations of the groups of plants are 

 of two different kinds, namely proper nouns and surnames, the 

 former being substantives or adjectives used as substantives and 

 intelligible by themselves, viz. Clemafis, {planiae) Ranunculaceae, 

 the latter being adjectives or exceptionally substantives used as 

 adjectives, which are no names by themselves but are only 

 intelligible in connection with a proper noun, viz. vulgaris 

 (Pidsafilla), Lingua {Ranuncuhis Lingua). Accordingly the names 

 of the groups of plants are either simple (proper nouns) or 

 Compound (combinations of a proper noun and one or more 

 surnames, viz. Ipomoea crassijjes var. ovaia subvar. natalensis 

 forma hrevipes). 



3) to give to art. 31 the following form: 



Art. B. 31. The names of species, including those, which 

 form a genus by themselves, are not simple, but binary, tliat is, 

 they are composed of the name of that genus, to which the 

 species in question belongs, and of a specific term of a commonly 

 adjective nature. In scientific language as in other languages, 

 the specific epithets by themselves are neither names nor have 

 any claim to priori ty. 



