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GENERA AND SPECIES. 
down to the first word of the description or some prominent word 
nus who was called by his contemporaries the botanical pirate of 
his time published his monumental work on genera and species 
and adopted or rejected the names given by others to plants just 
as the whim suited him. As time went on names got into a great- 
er and greater tangle from trying to do justice to prelinnzan 
botanists. It was then agreed by the botanists of the world that 
‘ d that where two names were 
published in the same genus the first should stand irrespective of 
me other genus which 
d that should a name 
should not in- 
hat might have been applied to a 
In other words the older name having gone 
species in the genus. 
now be used 
out of existence as a valid one the same name can 
for another species. This same rule also applied to genera. 
s’s Genera Plaiitarum was con- 
then the Systema was used. 
species should be recognized except Latin ones. 
