46 Hans Hallier (Hamburg). 



4) to give to art. 38 tlie foUowiiig form: 



Art. G. 38. Just as the names of species are composed by 

 adding a specific epithet to the generic name, so tlie names of 

 subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms etc. are also derived from 

 the name of the species by addition of a further specific epithet 

 (surname) for every one of the successive categories of rank, each 

 epithet to be preceded however by a corresponding designation 

 of rank, such as siihs})., var., siihvar., forma (/.) etc., or only 

 by a letter or by a cardinal number. To designate forms and 

 other slight or occasional modifications of spontaneous plants, 

 the letters or numbers are sufficient also by themselves, without 

 any epithet, only with short diagnostic notes, viz. «. ßore albo, 

 ß. flore pleno. 



Thus, differently from the names of species, the names of 

 lower ranks can never be binary, but ought to be always at least 

 ternary, that is composed of three separate terms. It depends 

 however entirely on the nature of every Single case, whether a 

 species in question is subdivided in complete succession of all the 

 degrees of rank into subspecies, varieties, subvarieties etc., or 

 immediately into varieties or forms, with the only restriction, not 

 to form the inferior degrees without having formed first the 

 corresponding superior degrees, viz.no subvarieties without varieties. 



5) to complete art. 60 alinea 1 in the following way: 



Art. 60. Nobody should admit a name in the following cases: 



1 " If this name is applied in the vegetable kingdom to a 



group named before by an acceptable name, the term „name" to 



be understood in the sense of section 2, chiefly of the articles 



17 sexies, B. 31 and G. 38 (Kew rule). 



6) to revise the Candollean regulations thoroughly in the sense of these 

 propositions and to replace, for instance, everywhere the term ,,specific 

 name" by „specific epithet" and the expression „combination of names" 

 by „Compound name". The author of these propositions declares him- 

 self willing to accept a commission that miglit be entrusted to him 

 in this regard (see above p. 40). 



Gedruckt bei Lütcke & Wulff, E. H. Senats Buchdruckern. 



