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binomial species previously or simultaneously published ; 
or when its type species is not indentified. 
EXAMPLES. — eee ae Necker, Elem. 1 : 214.(1790), and Ca/e- 
stam Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 1763), are se yeh because their authors 
neither named a ace. species nor cited a species which had pre- 
viously received a binomial name ; /Vudi/us Raf. Atl. i 176 (1833), is 
a hyponym, as its type species, V. paradoxus, has not been identified. 
Part III. ORTHOGRAPHY AND CITATION. 
Section I. Orthography. 
1. The original orthography of names is to be maintained, except 
in the following cases ; the change not to affect priority. 
(2) Manifest tyeneraphical errors may be corrected. 
EXAMPL 
PLES.— Scoria Raf. isa misprint for Hicoria ; Rumhora Raddi 
is a misprint for Aumohra, named for K. von Rumobr. 
(4) Adjectival names of species and subspecies agree in gender 
with the generic name with which they are associated. 
EXAMPLES.— Polygonum articulatum \..== Polvgonella articulata 
(L.) Meissn.; Sisymbrium amphibium palustre L.—= Radicula palustris 
(L.) Moench. 
(c) Generic names derived from personal names should be 
feminine, and if originally of other forms should be 
ame 
ES.—Lippius S. F. Gray, Kantius S. F,Gray, Pallavicinius 
ae see cane be changed to Lifpia, Kantia, and Pallavicinia and 
yet date from 1821 when originally publishe 
(¢) In the case of names proposed in works in which v and j 
were used as vowels or u and i as consonants they should 
be corrected to agree with modern usage. 
ES.—Euonymus, not Evonymus ; Naias, not Najas; Neu- 
ropteris, not Neopets: ; Rivularia, not Riuularia ( Rivelaria) ; orl 
not Jungia 
2. Generic names shoul be written with initial capital letters. 
EXAMPLES.— Desfontainea, not des Fontainea ; Durvillaea, not a’ Urvillaea. 
3. If capital letters are to be used for specific names they should 
be employed only for substantives and for adjectives derived 
from abner names, 
MP eet ae Trichomanes L.; saess Trifolit (Hedw.) Lév.; 
Sichimale Smithii Hook. ; Galium Boryanum Walp. 
4. The publication of names of bilingual derivation should be 
avoided, but published names are not to be rejected on ac- 
count of such derivation. 
